Webdigity Webmaster Forums - Italy Bullies Google Over Video

TechNews_Bot

Tue 28 November 2006, 10:01 am GMT +0100

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.

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olaf

Tue 28 November 2006, 11:07 am GMT +0100

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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.

sounds like the early years in Itlay from the last century ???

Nikolas

Tue 28 November 2006, 04:40 pm GMT +0100

I will agree with this quote from techdirt :

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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.

olaf

Tue 28 November 2006, 05:02 pm GMT +0100

Quote from: Nikolas on Nov 28, 2006, 04:40:59 pm

I will agree with this quote from techdirt :

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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.

yes right, its like shooting the cow because the melk is become sour...