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Google to face charges over Down’s syndrome video – Times Online: “Google is to face criminal charges in Italy over a video which appeared on one of its sites showing a disabled teenager being taunted by his peers.”

This is the part that seems odd to me:

Google is understood to have removed the clip from the Google Video site within hours of administrators being notified of its existence in September, 2006.

If Google did, in fact, take quick and appropriate action as soon as they were notified, exactly what is the basis for the charges against the Google executives? The only way to prevent any objectionable material ever being posted would be for Google to pre-approve all content, which is clearly impossible given the volume of material that makes it to Google sites.

Just another example of why I’m relatively glad I live in America, I guess, where our Constitutional protections for free speech are so much stronger than in most of Europe.