Per il Times Online il processo a Google è «un caso test» nel dibattito sul controllo dei contenuti diffusi attraverso il web.
«Gli avvocati di Google cercano di fermare il processo in Italia», titola il sito del quotidiano britannico, attirando l'attenzione sull'udienza di oggi a Milano nella quale è previsto che i legali di Google disputino la competenza giurisdizionale italiana.
The prosecution, which began last February, sees the Internet search engine defendant for not having captured a video, filmed with their cell phone and sent to Italy on the Google site, showing the abuse perpetrated by their four children to a school friend of affection Down syndrome in a technical institute in Turin.
The alleged offenses are defamation and invasion of privacy.
"The center-right government of Silvio Berlusconi - reminiscent of the corresponding Richard Owen - are using the current Italian Presidency of the G8 to propose laws that would force ISPs to block access to sites with" objectionable content "" .
The family of disabled boy mishandled the complaint was withdrawn. But the process has gone forward because the court has accepted the Oscar Magi as plaintiff and the City of Milan Vividown association, which represents the interests of those with Down syndrome. Guido Camera, legal Vividown, who had reported the existence of the video in September 2006, told the Times that Google would have understood disputed the Italian jurisdiction.
Google has its headquarters in California and only a few of its 20 thousand employees worldwide work in Italy. At the heart of the arguments, the question of whether the trial should be held in Italy and, if so, whether it should be moved from Milan to Turin, where the victim lives, or Rome, the capitale.Google claims to have removed the video from its site within 24 hours of the complaint - the Times - but the public prosecutor in Milan, Francesco Cajani, said that Google has broken the law by allowing the video is visible on her site, claiming that the video had been online for two months in 2006 and that Google had not responded to complaints.
Accused are David Drummond, Google's legal chief, Peter Fleischer, a consultant on the company's privacy; George Reyes, former chief financial, and Arvind Desikan, former head of Google Video Europe. If convicted, they face up to three years in prison.
victim of the boy's lawyer and his family had said last month that the decision to withdraw the lawsuit had been taken because Google officials had not only shown sympathy for what happened, but had acted "concrete" to show their sensitivity to the problems of the handicapped and the serious problem of bullying.
room said he did not know whether the boy's family has received compensation. The four guys who have beaten his companion were sentenced by the Juvenile Court to carry out assistance activities in association Turin.
process - says the Times - could establish a precedent for ISPs which allow users to put their content online.
The Italian law on the media - TV, newspapers and the Internet - requires that providers are responsible for the content of any third party. "This raises the question whether a website is a" publication "for content providers are responsible by law, the same way as a TV channel, newspaper or magazine."
Giuliano Pisapia, one of Google's legal defense, said - read the Times - it is impossible for Google to monitor everything that appears in video on his site, equating to a complaint, the move of pm in Milan. "Google is a search engine, not a newspaper, "he said.
Google claims that "groped to make neutral platforms are responsible for the content they put online is" a direct attack "on an internet free and open.
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