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The High Court of the Zurich Canton, in a revolutionary judgement concerning the dissemination of pornography via the Internet, has established a legal precedent. The operator of a mailbox was fined for giving unrestricted access to pornographic material to any user, including children under the age of 16. After viewing the material, which was transferred into the mailbox not by the defendant himself but by other users, he had moved it to the appropriate section, created by himself, and had failed to delete it, leaving it on file sometimes over a period of years. Under the terms of Art. 197.1 of...

An appeal of the Independent Appeals Committee for Radio and Television ( Unabhängige Beschwerdeinstanz für Radio und Fernsehen - UBI) with regard to the conformity to the broadcasting law of a programme may be entered by anyone having a particularly close relation to the programme (individual complaint) or by anyone taking action with at least 20 co-signers (popular complaint). Decisions of the UBI can be contested by way of an administrative court complaint at the federal court. Only persons affected by the disputed decision and having an interest worthy of protection in changing or revoking...

Between 5 and 9 January 1998, the Swiss television DRS showed a serial of several contributions about Tibet, each 6 to 8 minutes long, in the context of the programme "10 to 10". The coverage focused on a religious conflict between Tibetans in exile. The complainant criticised every single sequel of the "10 to 10" programme as well as the coverage as a whole and castigated it as a violation of the information principles (art. 4 RTVG). The complaint provided the Independent Appeals Committee ( Unabhängige Beschwerdeinstanz für Radio und Fernsehen - UBI) for the first time with an opportunity to...

On 3 November 1997, Télévision Suisse Romande (TSR) devoted its programme "Droit de cité" to the election of the Conseil d'Etat of the Canton of Geneva. All the candidates had been invited to take part, including the candidate representing a small political grouping called the Alliance des citoyens contribuables (alliance of tax-paying citizens). Feeling that it was not being allowed its fair share of space, the Alliance refused to take part in the broadcast and lodged a complaint with the independent radio and television http://services.obs.coe.int/en/index.htm authority ( AIEP). In its decision...

In April, the Swiss Federal Council ( Schweizerische Bundesrat) licensed the private television channel, Tele 24, broadcasting in German and owned by media mogul Roger Schawinsky, to operate a language-region TV service. In its media policy statement of 25 February 1988, the Council had already decided to give Swiss private broadcasters a bigger stake in the market, and to allow more television channels to offer programmes alongside the SRG (Schweizerische Radio- und Fernsehgesellschaft), particularly at language-region level. The aim is to achieve greater variety, and an increase in the electronic...