Filing on May 22, Microsoft said the U.S. government already stated that breaking up the software giant would be wrong... France has gagged a foreign Web company - Yahoo!, who it wants to ban from allowing French citizens to participate in auctions for Nazi paraphernalia... The Web Roundup, as always, wants to know more? nrnWASHINGTON - In what some call an unexpected filing May 22, Microsoft argued in court papers that the U.S. government had previously said breaking up the software giant would go against the public interest. The filing alluded to a five-year-old case in which the government was also said to have claimed breaking up Microsoft would be dangerous to economic welfare. Microsoft made the filing just two days before the scheduled remedy hearing in the government's current anti-trust case against it. "The government had it right in 1995: The law does not countenance the dismemberment of Microsoft, a remedy that would clearly 'act against the public interest,'" the new filing said. But sources close to the government's case cited by wire reports say that ruling preceded the "illegal actions" for which Microsoft was found in violation of anti-trust law by Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson. "That Microsoft repeatedly broke the law after those statements were made demonstrates why only structural relief can prevent Microsoft from violating the antitrust laws in the future," one such source was quoted as saying. nrnPARIS - Yahoo! has been told by a French court to make it impossible for French Netizens to get to auctions or sales of Nazi memorabilia. Judge Jean-Jacques Gomez also ordered Yahoo! to report back to court July 24 and discuss the measures it takes to stop Frenchmen from joining in on the sales. This is said to be the first time the French have ordered the gagging of a foreign Website this way, according to published reports. One Yahoo auction site offers hundreds of Nazi and Ku Klux Klan-related items up for bid every day - from swastikas and uniforms to flags and photographs - but French law bans exhibiting or selling objects with racist overtones. Yahoo! was also ordered to pay costs for the International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism (LICRA) and the Union of French Jewish Students (UEJF), who took the California-based portal to court in April to stop the auctions. Yahoo! attorneys maintained it wasn't possible, technically, for the portal to scan all content on all sites its service carries. nrn--- Compiled By Humphrey Pennyworth
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