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...those Internet links that triggers the same morbid instinct that makes motorists slow down to stare at a highway accident scene: "Bullying: disabled boy abused in school." The three-minute clip, which was posted to the Google Video platform in 2006, showed four youths in the Italian city of Torino teasing an autistic classmate and throwing tissues at him. At least 12,000 people clicked on the video before Google took it down following a formal complaint from the Italian Interior Ministry...
...Wednesday, a Milan judge convicted three Google executives of privacy violation for not blocking the video from the site. The officials - senior vice president and top legal officer David Drummond, chief privacy counsel Peter Fleischer and former chief financial officer George Reyes - each received a suspended six-month jail sentence. The ruling, which Google said it would appeal, has sparked a vigorous debate about the free flow of information and the legal responsibility of Web-platform companies to monitor the type of material that is posted to their sites. (See pictures of work and life at Google...
...statement, Google reacted angrily to the verdict, calling it an "astonishing decision ... that attacks the very principles of freedom on which the Internet is built." The California-based search-engine giant, which owns YouTube, also said, "Common sense dictates that only the person who films and uploads a video to a hosting platform could take the steps necessary to protect the privacy and obtain the consent of the people they are filming." Google further claimed that European Union law gives hosting providers a "safe harbor from liability so long as they remove illegal content once they are notified...
Although the judge's written ruling has not yet been issued, the facts of the case appear to revolve around how rapidly Google responded to complaints about the video. The clip was posted Sept. 8, 2006, and was removed from the site nearly two months later in direct response to a government request. But prosecutors argued that individual viewers had sent written complaints about the video for weeks before it was taken down. (See a cartoon about Google overload...
...seconds ahead of Finland's Ryynaenen in the first leg of the relay, giving the Americans the lead. American Todd Lodwick, making his fifth Olympic appearance, held it, but Austria slowly gained ground, and Felix Gottwald opened a 14-sec. gap against the third American racer, Spillane. (Watch a video about how Todd Lodwick trains...