BREAKING NEWS
Yahoo said to delete dozens of neo-Nazi sites by Rick Perera, IDG News Service\Berlin Bureau February 06, 2001, 09:33

Yahoo Inc. and its Web hosting subsidiary GeoCities Inc. have deleted 44 German-language neo-Nazi Web sites in the past three months, a Holocaust survivors' group said Tuesday.

Yahoo has just deleted a further 14 sites, in addition to 22 taken off-line at the end of November, and another eight removed three weeks later, said Samuel Althof, spokesman for the Swiss-based Aktion Kinder des Holocaust (Children of the Holocaust Action).

The group is spearheading a petition drive aimed at providers which host neo-Nazi sites. In less than a month, more that 3,500 people have signed via the Web site http://www.akdh.ch/, Althof said.

German neo-Nazi groups have increasingly moved their Web sites offshore, most often to the U.S., to evade German laws banning racist propaganda.

Asked whether he is satisfied with Yahoo's cooperation, Althof said, "That remains to be seen. We fought almost four months to establish a cooperation. It's improving step by step."

A spokeswoman at the Munich office of Yahoo's German subsidiary, Yahoo Deutschland GmbH, referred a reporter to staff at Yahoo's Santa Clara, California headquarters, who were not immediately reachable for comment.

Yahoo was fined in November by a French court over the accessibility of Nazi memorabilia, illegal in France, on its U.S. auction Web sites. It announced last month that it would ban such items from its sites. The company has said that it will still fight the case via U.S. courts, though it has exhausted its final appeal in France. It has denied that its policy change is in response to the French court order.

Yahoo headquarters can be reached online at http://www.yahoo.com/. Yahoo Deutschland is at http://www.yahoo.de/.

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Terça-feira, 6 de Fevereiro de 2001 - 16h31
[ Rick Perera - IDG News Service, Berlim ]

WebWorld
O Yahoo! e seu braço de hospedagem de Web sites pessoais, o GeoCities, tiraram do ar 44 endereços com conteúdo neo-nazista nos últimos três meses, segundo afirmou um grupo formado por sobreviventes do holocausto.
O portal extinguiu recentemente 14 sites, além de 22 que já havia tirado do ar no final de novembro e outros oito que haviam sido removidos três semanas antes, afirmou Samuel Althof, porta-voz do Aktion Kinder des Holocaust (Crianças da Ação do Holocausto). O grupo está liderando um movimento para solicitar aos provedores que abrigam sites de cunho neo-nazista que tirem essas páginas do ar. Em menos de um mês, mais de 3,5 mil pessoas já assinaram em apoio à idéia no site www.akdh.ch, afirmou Althof.

No entanto, os grupos neo-nazistas da Alemanha estão abrigando seus Web sites em outros países para fugir das leis alemãs contra o nazismo. Questionado sobre se está satisfeito com a cooperação do Yahoo!, Althof afirmou que “isso ainda está por ser visto. Nós lutamos quase quatro meses para estabelecer uma cooperação, que está avançando passo a passo”.