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somewhere in italy, four google executives are being sued for failing to show that they care.

a kid with down syndrome was being bullied by some teenagers. this they recorded. and this they uploaded in google video europe.

it took a while before the video was removed by google - a long enough while for it to be noticed by an italian advocacy group for people with down syndrome. the result of this was a law suit.

the video should not have been uploaded. that is given. and the law suit in effect is saying is that google should have made sure that it had enough safeguards to ensure that such appalling videos are blocked from being shown. google didn't refute the illness of the video's content nor the fact that it was uploaded and shown. they say that it would be hard for them to do so much filtering. and that amount of filtering runs contrast to the idea of the internet.

so we have decency on one hand and an open and free internet environment on the other.

i go with decency. and because it's the image they want to project, im sure so does google... but they just don't want to pay.