The Media Drop

The AP’s David Kravets writes about a big of a conundrum that the legal system is in surrounding free speech rights on the web, and who can “govern” them. At the center of the situation is a court ruling in France that said that a U.S.-based company (Yahoo!) was liable for Nazi materials that were available to web surfers in that country. In a way, it’s like the start of a discussion about whether companies providing web content would be liable under multiple jurisdictions, internationally and nationally. If it sounds unbearable to even think about, it is.