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960805_french_isp_investigation.announce: Association des Utilisateurs d'Internet (French Internet Users' Association) press release strongly criticizing French government's attempt to hold ISP system operators liable for Usenet content.

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Internet_censorship_bills/: Net censorship legislation & regulation in France.
LICRA_v_Yahoo/: Directory of information on the LICRA v. Yahoo! (French) and Yahoo! v. LICRA (US) cases, in which France tries to censor a US-based website, and US courts are skeptical. The case was initially brought against Yahoo!, Inc. by Ligue [Internationale] Contre le Racisme et l'Antisemitisme (LICRA) in France. Yahoo! filed for a US court judgement against US enforceability of the French ruling, which went against them. As of Nov. 2001, US courts have supported Yahoo!'s position that the US cannot be forced to censor a US-based operation by a foreign government for speech that, while banned in another country, is legal in the US.

Association des Utilisateurs d'Internet: The AUI aims at standing for a large number of French and French-speaking Internet users. Its activities includes providing relevant information to Internet users, following and participating to Internet technical aspects improvements, and acting in direction of a better understanding of what Internet is, and what Internet means in terms of social and economical developments.
Electronic Frontiers France (EF-F, EF-France) EFF cousin organization in France. Link now dead.: (Website in French)