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“Astonishing” Criminal Liability for YouTube Video


In another European case I’ve blogged about before (here, here, and here), yesterday an Italian court convicted three Google executives of criminal privacy violations in a case arising out of a 2006 YouTube video of the bullying of an autistic boy, posted to YouTube by his abusers.  The court imposed suspended three- to six-month sentences on [...]

Web Liability Without Section 230


In 2006 four Italian youths used a cellphone to video their taunting of a boy with Down syndrome, and then posted the video on Google-owned YouTube.  Four Google executives, including Google’s senior vice president and chief legal officer and its former CFO, now face criminal charges of defamation and privacy violation in Italy over posting [...]