Google execs face criminal charges over video
February 3rd, 2009From the New York Times:
Four Google executives are being tried this week in an Italian court on criminal charges of defamation and privacy violation over a cellphone video posted on a Google site in 2006. The video showed four youths in Turin taunting a boy with Down syndrome.
Google quickly removed the video after an advocacy group complained about the content, but prosecutors say the video should never have been published in the first place.
The case raises again the question of whether Internet companies are obligated to screen items before they are published. Google has said the prosecution is misdirected.
Earlier post here.
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