Yahoo knuckles under to a French court decision, banning the sale of Nazi-related memorabilia worldwide. Of course, this may now open the floodgates to demands to ban other items which are illegal in some parts of the world, reducing Yahoo's online auction site contents to those items considered universally inoffensive. There is, of course, something unwholesomely creepy about those who fetishise a murderous dictatorship, but banning the sale of Third Reich postage stamps isn't likely to have any effect other than making those imposing the ban feel good about symbolically standing up against fascism (albeit some six decades too late).

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