...

The International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism, known by its French initials LICRA, is suing Yahoo! for having Nazi-related items on auction websites that can be accessed in France.

France: French Anti-Racist Group Sues Yahoo:

In this message, Sean P. Floyd says this page talks about how "Lawyers go around demanding money from web site owners for just linking to US products that apparently infringe German and European copyrights." It being in German I can't confirm this.

Germany: AOL found guilty of allowing music bootlegs: "A German court today found America Online liable for allowing people to swap pirated music files on its service." That's April 12th.

Let's look at what's going on in other countries. Most of these stories have occurred in the last week!

Now, as far as I know, this is correct. Court decision on extending that have been a mixed bag and probably can't be trusted in the future, so let's examine the issue, hmmm?

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

I can't find the message where this was said, but somebody pointed out that the First Amendment only applies to governments, not corporations.

I assume most of the readers of this weblog have been following the ruckus over at Scripting News, starting around April 4th, where Conxion, an ISP, attempted to exert editorial control over Dave Winer's statements about Conxion.