Before Google bought YouTube, it ran a site called Google Video. Back in 2006 (eons ago in Internet time), some students in Italy uploaded a video of them bullying an autistic classmate. When an advocacy group contacted Google, Google immediately took the video down, identified the uploader, and turned her identity over to authorities who prosecuted her. Italian prosecutors then took the breathtakingly stupid step of charging Google executives, namely in-house lawyers, who had nothing to do with Google Video and weren't in Italy, with "allowing" the video to be uploaded. Yesterday three of those execs were convicted in criminal court and sentenced to six months in prison each (suspended under law). Do the Italians really want to make their legal system a laughing stock on the world stage like this?
DailyTech - Italy Convicts Three Google Execs for Violating Privacy Laws, Ruling Could Stifle Web Content
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