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Paris by night

Tue, 20 Dec 2005 12:00:00 +0000

Paris by night. A panorama of Paris.

Google complies with local laws

Fri, 25 Oct 2002 12:00:00 +0000

Now Google is complying with local laws by eliminating anti-Semetic sites from their French (google.fr) and German (google.de) sites. These sites still remain accessible through google.com, though.

In the long run, I don’t think this state of affairs will continue. I hope we have one law across the world, at least where the Net is concerned. But more likely is an agreement on law guidelines, something like the WTO. Less likely and desirable is where tracking surfers’ country of origin becomes reliable.

Besides, Google has lots of other complaints to take care of. via Plastic

France considering taxing computers

Wed, 17 Jan 2001 12:00:00 +0000

After telling Yahoo to remove Nazi memorabilia from its auction site, France is now considering taxing computers and other recording devices to compensate artists for piracy. I mean, Paris and art is all fine, but this is crazy! And Germany’s apparantly already done this.