Google Execs Face Criminal Charges Over Online Video
Posted 02/03/09 at 04:38:54 PM by Pulkit Chandna
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Four Google employees have been slapped with criminal charges of defamation and privacy violation in Italy. Their legal woes began when an Italian organization complained against a video on Google Video – uploaded a couple of years ago – that shows four imbeciles tormenting a disabled person.
Although Google removed the video as soon as the complaint was made, Italian prosecutors decided to persist with personal criminal charges – an unprecedented move - against the four Google executives. Their trial will begin on Tuesday in Milan, Italy. These Google execs may even be consigned to an Italian prison for up to three years, if the charges against them are upheld.
It has vowed to “vigorously defend” its employees. "Seeking to hold neutral platforms liable for content posted on them is a direct attack on a free, open Internet" a spokeswoman for Google argued.
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Google should just close their Italian offices
Submitted by Biceps on Wed, 02/04/2009 - 6:50pm
And then ban any computer from Italy from accessing Google services of any kind. That way, they can't accidentally 'do evil', and the Italian government will probably (judging from their current actions) be dumb enough to think they have won a victory.
Props to Google for defending its people... they've got a lot of passionate and ethical people working there. I think Italy is doing this as a power play to get leverage over Google (who knows why?) and should be, as a nation, shown the door by Google. Some customers need firing, and this is a pretty good example of that kind of situation. Maybe after a formal apology from the Italian gov't, services could be restored (for a fee? BWAHAHAHA).
Anyone know if there are any Italy-based search engines having a particularly hard time right now? Hmmm... I love conspiracies.
Save Google Video
Submitted by plaskon on Tue, 02/03/2009 - 5:31pm
http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/SaveGoogleVideo
This just proves my
Submitted by Keith E. Whisman on Tue, 02/03/2009 - 5:04pm
This just proves my assumptions were correct that Italy is a totaly backwards imbesselic sad excuse for a country. Actually Italy is far more backwards than even our country.
Submitted by Zeroblizzard on Tue, 02/03/2009 - 5:02pm
This is complete BS. It sounds like there needs to a be a series of international laws so that people understand what the Internet's really for: a completely free place where anybody can do anything on any website that they have access, and they can pay the penalties for.
Google is completely innocent for once. It was their website, their turf, but they can't screen videos before they show up on Youtube, or is that what the Italians think (the prosecutors)?
Submitted by AndyYankee17 on Tue, 02/03/2009 - 3:27pm
I still don't get how you can hold a company like youtube responsible for what its users post post especially when google did its best to fix it
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