European Arrest Warrant and publishing/distributing on the internet
Ken Brown
k.brown at ccs.bbk.ac.uk
Tue, 09 Jul 2002 11:54:00 +0100
"Bettina Jodda (Twister)" wrote:
> Morning from Germany :-)
[...]
> 1. We had a case with someone called "Torben", a right-wing extremist to say
> the least :-) who was chief of the so-called "Adelaide-Institute".
> On his web-site, hosted in Australia, he denied that the Holocaust had been
> happening. (to deny this is forbidden by law in Germany).
> Though the web-site was hosted in Australia where "it is allowed to deny the
> Holocaust", Torben was treated according the German right as the web-site was
> a) addressed to German people by using German language
> b) "disturbing the public order in Germany" as the effect of a web-site like
> his one does also take place in Germany.
What would happen if someone in, say, Denmark, put up a Nazi poster near
the border where people could read it from the other side? Would they be
prosecuted in Denmark? (If such things are also illegal in Denmark then
imagine some fantasy free-speech country bordering on Germany). Is
there any special reason why laws applying to electronic communication
should be different from other sorts?
Ken