It ’s being reported today that four Google employees will be charged with “ obloquy and failure to exercise control over personal data point ” in Italy . This all stems from a video posted to Google Video in 2006 , which showed four teens teasing and molest a male child with down syndrome . Google removed the video within a Clarence Day , but by that full stop it had already been seen 12,000 times . The public prosecutor also think that because the video spotlight the boy ’s disability , it could dishonor Italian data point protection laws . Google has yet to welcome official charges , but generator have told Reuters that the employees will be charged and expect them to confront trial on February 3rd 2009 . The companionship said it ’s worried about the case in point this could set for censorship on the net , and I have to agree . At least one of these employee has never know in Italy , and furthermore , the video was uploaded to a waiter in the US . But on top of all that , the bigger query is how can you punish these Google employee for something one of their users did ? If they do get convicted it threatens YouTube , Google Video , and just about every site with user generated content . So even though making playfulness of the disabled is totally uncool ( and despite my proud Italian heritage ) I ’m pass to have to mildly call down Italy for this one : not coolheaded Italy , not nerveless . [ ReutersviaPCWorld – Image viaian larson ]
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