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Germany has decided to enforce it's laws internationally.

Germany calls for ban of neo-Nazi sites abroad

By PATRICK McGROARTY - 1 day ago

BERLIN (AP) - Germany's Justice Minister is calling for Internet service
providers in the U.S. and elsewhere to remove neo-Nazi images, text and
other content that can be viewed inside the country in violation of laws
forbidding any Nazi symbols.

It's doubtful, though, that Germany will have much luck persuading U.S.
companies to remove material that is legal in the United States.

Justice Minister Brigitte Zypries said her office would appeal to foreign
Internet providers to use their own terms of service as grounds for
eliminating content promoting the far-right ideal.

"The general terms of service that they have issued themselves say that
hate should be discouraged, so take things down that go against that,"
Zypries said.

A separate debate over Internet monitoring in Germany broke out last month
as federal lawmakers approved legislation to allow Web sites containing
child pornography to be blocked.

Using ideology or symbols from the Nazis is forbidden in Germany, but
far-right groups that do not associate themselves with Nazis directly have
more leeway. Stefan Glaser, spokesman for a youth-protection group called
jugendschutz.net, said it catalogued 1,600 sites run by far-right
extremists last year, and that the number was growing.

"The Internet has become the No. 1 propaganda platform for far-right
extremists," Glaser said.

National laws routinely conflict over the borderless Internet.

France, too, has laws restricting Nazi symbols and paraphernalia, and it
tried in 2000 to force Yahoo Inc. to prevent French Internet users from
seeing such items on its auction pages. Although Yahoo eventually banned
Nazi material, saying it did not want to profit from it, it continued to
challenge the application of French law to the U.S. company.

The Associated Press


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