Stardate 20011107.2247 (On Screen): There's been a very important legal decision and it went the right way. A French court ordered Yahoo to remove material from a US web server because it violated French law and could be accessed from France. Yahoo went to court and
asked for an order declaring that the French court had no jurisdiction in the US and that its order could not be enforced. A US judge has now declared that indeed the French court order, which would have violated the First Amendment, cannot be enforced in the US. That was the only possible decision; nothing else was acceptable. Without that, the First Amendment would have been meaningless.
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