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pkang0202
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 Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 7:14 am Post subject: If you thought Korean Courts were bad... |
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2360396,00.asp
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An Italian court had convicted three Google employees over an offensive video that was uploaded to the company's video service, despite the fact that none of the men had anything to do with the video's production.
Google called the ruling "astonishing" and said it would appeal.
At issue is a 2006 video uploaded to Google Video featuring students at a Turin, Italy school bullying an autistic classmate. Google removed the video after being notified of its existence by Italian police, and helped authorities track down those responsible. Those individuals were eventually sentenced to 10 months community service.
The case did not end there, however. A public prosecutor in Milan decided to indict four Google employees � chief legal officer David Drummond, senior product marketing manager Arvind Desikan, global privacy counsel Peter Fleischer, and former chief financial officer George Reyes, who left the company in 2008 � on charges of criminal defamation and a failure to comply with the Italian privacy code.
On Wednesday, a judge convicted Drummond, Fleischer, and Reyes for failure to comply with the Italian privacy code. All four men were found not guilty of criminal defamation.
"To be clear, none of the four Googlers charged had anything to do with this video. They did not appear in it, film it, upload it or review it. None of them know the people involved or were even aware of the video's existence until after it was removed," Matt Sucherman |
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ontheway
Joined: 24 Aug 2005
Location: Somewhere under the rainbow...
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| Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 8:17 am Post subject: Re: If you thought Korean Courts were bad... |
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| pkang0202 wrote: |
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2360396,00.asp
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An Italian court had convicted three Google employees over an offensive video that was uploaded to the company's video service, despite the fact that none of the men had anything to do with the video's production.
Google called the ruling "astonishing" and said it would appeal.
At issue is a 2006 video uploaded to Google Video featuring students at a Turin, Italy school bullying an autistic classmate. Google removed the video after being notified of its existence by Italian police, and helped authorities track down those responsible. Those individuals were eventually sentenced to 10 months community service.
The case did not end there, however. A public prosecutor in Milan decided to indict four Google employees � chief legal officer David Drummond, senior product marketing manager Arvind Desikan, global privacy counsel Peter Fleischer, and former chief financial officer George Reyes, who left the company in 2008 � on charges of criminal defamation and a failure to comply with the Italian privacy code.
On Wednesday, a judge convicted Drummond, Fleischer, and Reyes for failure to comply with the Italian privacy code. All four men were found not guilty of criminal defamation.
"To be clear, none of the four Googlers charged had anything to do with this video. They did not appear in it, film it, upload it or review it. None of them know the people involved or were even aware of the video's existence until after it was removed," Matt Sucherman |
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Government is irrational and stupid in every branch, all levels and in all countries.
We should work to eliminate as much government as possible, as quickly as possible, from the face of the Earth, forever. |
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Mr. Pink
Joined: 21 Oct 2003
Location: China
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| Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 5:48 pm Post subject: |
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| I do notice a lot of similarities between the Italians and the Koreans. I guess their courts are just another one to add to the list. |
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