Yesterday it was reported that an Italian court has found Google bosses guilty of privacy violations as a film of an autistic boy being bullied was uploaded onto a Google video site. They say they cannot be held responsible for user-supplied video. They further say they removed it quickly after the Italian police contacted them. But that was two months after it first appeared.
If the service provider is not not taking responsibility for content on their site, then the rights of individuals are going to be violated.
The trouble is they (and other video sites) have created a monster, which they cannot control. Like a dangerous dog, for most of the time it's very docile, but you don't know when it will attack and maim someone -as the video did to the autistic boy.
The US ambassador to Rome commented, "We are negatively impressed by today's convictions." Well, I'm negatively impressed by the fact that a video showing abuse to a minor was left up on their site for two months.
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