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CN: Boys post vid on YouTube of beating up another kid. Google then acquires YouTube, after the vid is posted. Google helps authorities to identify the kids and get them prosecuted. Down Syndrome advocacy group pushes for privacy violation prosecution. Four years later, top Google execs are held accountable for violating the victim's privacy by hosting the content that his aggressors posted and were convicted for.
MILAN – An Italian court convicted three Google executives of privacy violations Wednesday because they did not act quickly enough to remove an online video that showed sadistic teen bullies pummeling and mocking an autistic boy...Prosecutors had insisted the case wasn't about censorship but about balancing the freedom of expression with the rights of an individual...
In the first such criminal trial of its kind, Judge Oscar Magi sentenced the three in absentia to a six-month suspended sentence and absolved them of defamation charges. A fourth defendant, charged only with defamation, was acquitted....
Thanks to the footage and Google's cooperation, the four bullies were identified and sentenced by a juvenile court to community service. The events shortly preceded Google's 2006 acquisition of YouTube...
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears
This is just retarded. This is the kind of ruling that it should come down to "Oh, you want to make a ruling like this that is totally illogical? Ok, have fun without Interwebs (and cut their line).
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AP wrote:
Ruling Judge Oscar Magi said the decision should be interpreted as a requirement that Internet service providers must screen the enormous amount of video that passes through their sites.
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"There is no doubt that the overwhelming speed of technical progress will allow, sooner or later, ever more stringent controls on uploaded data on the part of Web site managers," Magi said
Obviously not a judge that should be ruling on technical matters he does not understand.
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears
AP wrote:
Ruling Judge Oscar Magi said the decision should be interpreted as a requirement that Internet service providers must screen the enormous amount of video that passes through their sites.
...
"There is no doubt that the overwhelming speed of technical progress will allow, sooner or later, ever more stringent controls on uploaded data on the part of Web site managers," Magi said
Obviously not a judge that should be ruling on technical matters he does not understand.
wow... now that is really effed up. very, very scary.
This is just retarded. This is the kind of ruling that it should come down to "Oh, you want to make a ruling like this that is totally illogical? Ok, have fun without Interwebs (and cut their line).
