Okay, this is bad. Really bad. But, hey, it’s Google, so that sharply limits my grief over their predicament: Google Executives Face Jail Time for Italian Video
The case involves a three-minute cellphone video, posted in 2006 to Google Video, in which four youths in Turin tease a boy with Down syndrome. After an Italian advocacy group complained that the video was objectionable, Google quickly removed it from the site. Prosecutors argue that the video should not have been published at all.
Okay, they need to win this. They shouldn’t be prosecuted at all; it’s ridiculous. But I so enjoy seeing this far-left company get hammered by another country’s laws for intolerantly causing someone’s someone’s feelings to be hurt. Schadenfreudelicious!


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