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Europe moving toward ban on Internet hate speech

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The Council of Europe is attempting to add a protocol to the 43-nation cybercrime convention which would ban racist content and hate speech from the Internet. The U.S. would not be required to sign the side agreement with its allegiance to the First Amendment. France appears to have pushed hard for the protocol following its case against Yahoo involving Nazi memorabilia on the auction site. The convention also forbids online fraud, child pornography, hacking and electronic vandalism.

On-Line Information Services, Videotex & Teletext, Telegraph & other communications, Internet service providers, Telecommunications regulations, Online services, Internet services, Web sites (World Wide Web), Web sites, Computer crimes, Government communications regulation, Racism, Hate speech, Council of Europe

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U.S. Loses Trade Cases and Faces Penalties

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The World Trade Organization has ruled that many tariffs imposed by the United States were in violation of international trade laws, and has authorized the involved nations to impose retaliatory sanctions.

Canada, Legal issues & crime, Government regulation, Legal/Government Regulation, Company legal issue, Cases, International trade, World Trade Organization, Trade policy

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U.S. and Europe Agree to Handle Airline Industry Dispute Without W.T.O

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The United States and the European Union have agreed to negotiate the issue of subsidies in the aerospace industry. If they are successful in ending government subsidies for Boeing Co. and Airbus S.A.S., the market would be opened to other manufactures, like Bombardier.

Government expenditures, Administration of General Economic Programs, Aircraft, Guided Missiles, Space Vehicles, Parts, Grants to Business, International aspects, Negotiation, mediation and arbitration, Aerospace industry, Aircraft industry, Boeing Co., BA, Commercial treaties, Trade agreements, Airbus S.A.S., International economic relations, Subsidies, Government finance

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