Mannaggia La Miseria! Italy to Prosecute Google Execs Over Video
As Google continues its push for global domination of the Web, it faces censorship issues in foreign lands. Several countries, including China, Turkey, Pakistan and Thailand have at least temporarily blocked Google-owned YouTube over videos deemed sensitive or offensive. Now, let’s add Italy to the list.
According to the WSJ, Italian prosecutors are preparing to file charges in a Milan court against four Google execs over a video uploaded onto Google’s Italian-language site showing a disabled student teen taunted by peers. The investigation was prompted by an Italian advocacy group for people with Down syndrome, which lodged a complaint after being alerted to the video in September 2006. The 191-second video, shot in a classroom in Turin, shows four youths making fun of a disabled teenager and then hitting him on the head with a pack of tissues. The four youths, who filmed the event, also have faced criminal prosecution in a separate probe.
In September, prosecutors are expected to request that the four executives stand trial on charges of defamation and violation of privacy — both criminal charges under Italian law — for allegedly failing to adequately control the content of the site.
Stefano Hesse, head of communications for Google in Southern Europe, said Google removed the video within hours of having been notified of its existence. He said there’s no basis for legal action against the four officials under investigation because they had no involvement in the video incident. Hesse said that, under EU legislation, adopted into law by Italy, Google isn’t required to monitor third-party content on its sites, but takes down offending content when it is notified.
Italy is not a serious country
this country is so f-ed up so dont start criticizing other country. We have the most corrupt goverment on planet, except maybe Zimbabwe.
Anon,
1)You have no basis to say that Italy is not a serious country. See, they respect the rights of their fellow citizens. Not like here in the good ole USA where the majority of people care only about their own selfish greedy wasteful needs.
2) Maybe we should take a lesson from Italy and do the same with our fascist leader as they did with theirs.
Muzzilini and buSh make a disgusting pair.
As evidenced by Anon and Paolo - some Americans think that european style legal regimes should govern America and its society (nevermind the fact that a great many of these provisions violate our constitutional rights and individual liberties). After Barry’s speech in Berlin yesterday, I am starting to think that they may get their wish. Heaven help us.
NO UB2L, I JUST WANT MY REPRESENTITIVES TO HONNOR THEIR OATH AND FOLLOW THE CONSTITUTION OF THE USA…. OF, BY and FOR THE PEOPLE. NOT THE, EVERYTHING FOR THE MEGA CORPORATIONS. THIS EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATION AND CONGRESS ARE SO CORRUPT IT’S MIND BOGGLING. Sorry about the caps but our country is being destroyed by GREED. Outrageous Greed and the powers that be are pissing on our Constitution.
YouTube should post the taunting teens’ punishment.
Paolo - Implicit in #1 of your first comment was the assertion that America’s individualistic nature (as opposed to a European style collectivist nature) is part of the problem with America. I disagree. I think that individualism, when not taken to extremes, is what is great about America. In #2,you assert that G.W. Bush is a fascist akin to Mussolini (& the Black Hand for that matter) but this argument is flawed on its face - can you compare and contrast the actions of the Bush Administration with those of Mussolini to back-up an otherwise unproven and unwarranted categorization? On another note, are you the type of person who believes that the Constitution is a “living document”?
well said, UB2L
Mussolini said that facsism was the perfect marriage between government and buisness. That’s what we have now in the U.S. The oil giants and buSh have been in bed together for so long they don’t even use a condom anymore. That goes for cheney also. GE, Haliburton, Blacwater, CACI and hundreds of other co’s. and it goes on and on. The credit card companies wrote the bancruptcy bill. The whole MIC, the MSM, we are so screwed I don’t know if it’s fixable. The fact that cheNey had secret meetings with the oil co. exects and this is our energy policy. A policy he won’t even show to Congress. Have they forgotten that the citizens of the U.S.A. ARE the Government? Everything this administration does he puts under the guise of national security. Everything is so secretive Nobody knows what’s going on. Except that we are 6 TRILLION DOLLARS more in debt and all his Buddies are raking in BILLIONS from the no bid contracts and unregulated monopolies. It is just horrendous.
I do beleive that the Constitution is a living document but it needs 2/3rds vote from the American people to be ammended. Not just trashed by the unitarian selected buSh. I do agree with you that we get in trouble when we go to the extremes and I and 75% of the American people think we have gone way to far to the right. This administration with the help of congress has transfered $3-4 trillion$ of weath from the middle class and the poor and shifted it to 1 tenth of one percent of the population. What gets me is that most Americans either don’t know or don’t care. I try to talk to people and 50% of them don’t even know who cheNey is, or Pelosi, Mukasey or Bernanke. A couple of times in the past 8 years I just felt like weeping.
Aha! Now we know who to blame — it’s those pesky Unitarians who are behind the Bush Administration!
Paolo, please go take your medication now. Your insane ranting (and poor spelling) makes ME feel like weeping.
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That introductory comment is classic.
I don’t like the term “living document”. Iv’e never used that term. But the Constitution was written so as to evolvle and be amended. It also states that if we don’t like the way our government is working we can abolish it and start over. That’s what makes it so great. The great men that fought for and wrote that document were fighting a government like the one ours is becoming.
First of all I’m physically dissabled and it is very difficult for me to type. That last entry I wrote about fascism took me about 45 min. It’s very frustrating. Besides. My spelling doesn’t change the facts I have put forth.
