Google execs convicted in Italy for Down's Syndrome video

[koshatnik]

Google gets whacked with the stupid stick (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8533695.stm)

[hobo14]

? Google is stupid, or the people with the stick are stupid?

It's bizarre ruling that Google are responsible for user uploaded content.

[koshatnik]

? Google is stupid, or the people with the stick are stupid?

It's bizarre ruling that Google are responsible for user uploaded content.

The latter. And it is bizarre. And stupid.

[sqrooup]

Clearly a case of "shoot the messenger"!

[madnessjack]

It is pretty ignorant but it does raise a good point. The Internet is wild and crazy. It's only a matter of time before governments start restricting it on an approval only basis.

[Sporkman]

Google execs convicted in Italy for Down's video

Reuters
By Manuela D'Alessandro

MILAN (Reuters) – A Milan court convicted three Google Inc executives on Wednesday for violating the privacy of an Italian boy with Down's syndrome by letting a video of him being bullied be posted on the site in 2006.

Google will appeal the six-month suspended jail terms and said the verdict "poses a crucial question for the freedom on which the internet is built," since none of the three employees found guilty had anything to do with the offending video...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100224/bs_nm/us_italy_google_conviction

[wojox]

Google will win the appeal. Do you know what kind of door that would open up?

[cammin]

Good luck to them.

It was already mentioned here, btw. (not that you'd know from looking at their thread title)
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1414937

[koshatnik]

Good luck to them.

It was already mentioned here, btw. (not that you'd know from looking at their thread title)
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1414937

I was being creative. :D