Last month a Paris court found that Yahoo! had broken a French law that makes it illegal in France to sell or display anything that incites racism. The site which was the subject of the case sells Nazi, neo-Nazi and Ku Klux Klan memorabilia to on-line bidders, including films, swastikas, daggers, uniforms, photos and medals.
The portal was given two months to block the site from internet users in France.
Yang told the French publication Liberation, “We are not going to change the content of our sites in the United States because someone in France is asking us to do so.” He continued, “This French court wants to impose a judgement in a jurisdiction within which it does not have any control… To ask us to filter the access to our content according to the nationality of the net surfers is very naïve.”
The case us the first time a French court has issued such an order on a foreign company. Yang said that his mind will not be changed without an order from a US court. Yahoo! is expected to report back to the Paris court on 24th July.