Google Italy Execs Convicted Over YouTube Bullying Video

FTWinston writes "Three Italian Google executives have been convicted of privacy violations in Italy over the contents of a YouTube video showing a boy with Downs syndrome being bullied — despite the fact that the video was removed as soon as it was brought to their attention, and that Google assisted the authorities in locating those who posted it. Prosecutors argued that Google should have sought the consent of all parties involved with the video before allowing it to go online. Quite how they were meant to achieve this is another matter." Google has responded by saying this is a Serious threat to the web.

Easy solution

[Ant P.]

Automatically notify the Italian government of every single public video uploaded to Youtube, and offer them a 5 minute delay before it becomes viewable inside Italy in which time they can reject it.

They'll be begging for it to stop after half an hour.

Wow.

[Pojut]

Just wow.

This is so far over the top...based on the couple of different sources I have seen this story so far, Google immediately complied when asked to take the video down, assisted the authorities in finding the culprits, and fully cooperated....and the EXECUTIVES, who amount to pencil pushers with decision making powers, get convicted? Seriously, what the hell...that makes no sense.

They must have used the Chewbacca defense [wikipedia.org] against them or something...

By the same logic...

[ZeRu]

If someone commits a crime in Italy and the police isn't around to intervene, the victim should be able to sue them for not preventing the crime. How they were meant to achieve that? That's their problem, not mine.

More lawsuits!

[h00manist]

Well, it is Italy. Perhaps the victim will sue for having had his only chance at five minutes of fame nixed by Google. The mob-perpetrators will sue the state and the media for slander because they were just doing their job. Everyone will get killed. Then, there will be a marriage, a party, everyone will go to the beach, and confessions will be heard on a rock by a Catholic priest, you will be absolved if you are in scuba gear or have killed enough people.

Tried accessing YouTube from the Rome...

[netsavior]

"Youtube.com is inaccessible from your country."
Error 1942 - Fascist exception overflow. Please disable Axis powers and reload the page.

Re:This is Italy

[Dishevel]

At times like this I love my sig.