NYTimes.com withholds story from Britain

The New York Times held off publishing a story online that was in Monday's print edition because lawyers had advised it might flout British laws, according to USA Today.

The site then put the article online, but blocked Britain from accessing it using the same technology used for targeted advertising.

Next to the story in the paper, The Times ran the following note: "Publication of this article on nytimes.com has been delayed temporarily on the advice of legal counsel. It is also being omitted from the British circulation of The International Herald Tribune. This arises from British laws that prohibit publication of the information that could be deemed prejudicial to defendants charged with a crime."

Later in the day, USA Today reported on the decision, and then the story was posted online.

The Times says:

Richard J. Meislin, the paper’s associate managing editor for Internet publishing, said the technological hurdle was surmounted by using some of The Times’s Web advertising technology. The paper could already discern the Internet address of users connecting to the site to deliver targeted marketing, and could therefore deliver targeted editorial content as well. That took several hours of programming.

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