The internet censorship requests issued by the examining magistrate of the canton of Vaud (see EDRigram number 2 from 12 February) have been rejected on 30 April by a judge from the court of Lausanne. In December, over 30 providers had received the order, and while most of them installed some technical blocking-measures, they joined the legal protest.
The verdict however isn't based on any ethical or constitutional objections against provider-filtering, but on the wrong selection of legal arguments. The judge recommends other heavier laws to proceed with the case, for example suing the providers for acting as accessaries.
The examining magistrate immediately responded by sending a threatening letter to at least one of the ISPs involved, Init Seven AG. Though she admits she was wrong with her blocking order, she warns that the ISP is still with one foot in jail. If Init Seven AG, in its quality as "conductor of society and receiver of this formal warning" decides not to block the incriminated websites, "you risk a criminal investigation against you as an accessary to crimes of defamation, slander and injure".
Original text of the decision (in French)
http://www.nrg4u.com/abuse/canton-de-vaud-tribunal-daccusation.pdf
(Contribution by Felix Rauch, Swiss Internet User Group SIUG)