In the latest of numerous legal battles against Internet giant Google, Italian prosecutors are charging Google executives with defamation and failure to comply with privacy laws. According to a New York Times article, Google failed to remove an offensive video showing Italian high school bullies picking on a classmate with Downs Syndrome. Google maintains it followed Italian and European law, but if the case is ruled against it, the California based company may have to change the way it operates overseas.
Google has plenty of troubles here in the states as well. The company has attached an apology of sorts to an ad that portrays a racially offensive image of First Lady Michelle Obama. You can read an in-depth article from the on-line edition of the San Francisco Chronicle here.
It will be interesting to see just where the issue of on-line content responsibility and regulation will go in the future.
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