A French court has acquitted Tim Koogle of "justifying war crimes" for allowing Yahoo auctions to sell Nazi memorabilia. Koogle is the former CEO of Yahoo. The danger here was cross-border censorship. If you could face criminal charges in other countries for internet content lawful in your own country, then the worldwide standard of free speech would drop to that of the least free nation. If Tim Koogle was guilty, then the next in line would be historians of the Tiananmen Square massacre and defenders of evolution. More coverage.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 2/15/2003 04:56:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.