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Is Italy becoming part of Albuquerque?
A Milan court convicted three Google executives on Wednesday for violating the privacy of an Italian boy with autism by letting a video of him being bullied be posted on the site in 2006.
Google said it was confident it would avoid formal investigation by the European Commission. It said the Milan verdict “poses a crucial question for the freedom on which the internet is built” as none of its employees had anything to do with the video.
“They didn’t upload it, they didn’t film it, they didn’t review it and yet they have been found guilty,” said Google’s senior communications manager, Bill Echikson, in Milan.
The court convicted senior vice-president and chief legal officer David Drummond, former Google Italy board member George De Los Reyes and global privacy counsel Peter Fleischer. Senior product marketing manager Arvind Desikan was acquitted…
The complaint was brought by an Italian advocacy group for people with Down’s Syndrome, Vivi Down, and the boy’s father, after four classmates at a Turin school uploaded a clip to Google Video showing them bullying the boy…
The video was filmed with a mobile phone and posted on the site in September 2006.
Google argued that it removed the video immediately after being notified and cooperated with Italian authorities to help identify the bullies and bring them to justice.
It says that, as hosting platforms that do not create their own content, Google Video, YouTube and Facebook cannot be held responsible for content that others upload…
Why Albuquerque? Because not only does New Mexico lead the nation in lawsuits per capita, the Duke City hosted the famous McDonald’s million-dollar lawsuit for injuries sustained when a little old lady spilled her hot coffee in her lap – in her car – and was injured because it was hot coffee.
No one in America is supposed to take responsibility for their individual acts. Apparently, there are judges in Italy who think the medium is not only the message; but, the guilty party.
It’s like the lawsuits against firearms manufacturers for letting bullets come out the gun barrel when someone pulls the trigger.
