Italy Bullies Google Over Video

A video of an autistic 17-year-old boy being bullied in a Turin classroom made it onto Google Video, and Italian authorities are furious that the content was not caught by Google staffers.

report. "There was this very disturbing video which was posted on Google Video a couple of weeks ago and we promptly took it down when we were notified," she said. "We've been helping Italian police with the investigation and we're happy to cooperate." A pair of Google Italy's employees will be the embodiment of that cooperation. Prosecutors have made the unnamed pair part of the investigation. Although Google quickly removed the video upon being alerted to its contents, that may not be enough to satisfy the authorities. Reuters cited Education Minister Giuseppe Fioroni, who said those prosecutors were taking the right course. Italy regulates press and TV content and holds those creators accountable for its distribution. Fioroni believes that failing to do so with Internet content would be an unfair double standard. A Techdirt That would make sense if Google video actually was a system where editors actively requested articles and decided what content was published -- but they don't. They're just a platform for hosting and viewing the content. It's more like blaming Samsung for making the TV that someone watched some offending content on. Nate Anderson at Ars Technica sees the issue of the Italian video and During the incident, the four youths who perpetrated the bullying placed a mock phone call to Vividown, and that was also caught on the video. Tag: Add to Del.icio.us | Digg | Reddit | Furl Bookmark murdok: David Utter is a staff writer for murdok covering technology and business.