[LINK] Cerf testifies blocking impossible

[Michael Lean]

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INTERNET EXPERTS DISPUTE YAHOO CLAIM THAT LIMITING ACCESS IS IMPOSSIBLE
Issue: International/E-commerce
Internet experts told a judge that it would be possible to block some French
Web surfers from Yahoo! Inc.'s auction site. Several months ago, two
Paris-based antiracism groups sued Yahoo! of the U.S., angry that French
people had access to more than 1,000 objects of Nazi memorabilia on the site
(auctions.yahoo.com). A Paris judge asked a team of experts to search for
ways to filter French users from the site and all other sites deemed racist.
Yahoo's lawyers have argued that it would be impossible to keep French
people off the site. American Vinton Cerf, one of the Internet's founding
fathers, testified that it would be possible to detect and block 70% of
local surfers who use an easily identifiable French Internet-service
provider, but that it would be impossible to block every racist site from
French users.
[SOURCE: Wall Street Journal (Online), AUTHOR: Associated Press]
(http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB973549173716155181.htm)

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