Italy investigating Google over bullying video

Google Italy workers accused of failing to check content of posted video featuring teenagers harassing an autistic classmate.

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[herby67]

Double standards

"I've said repeatedly that there can't be double standards, one for the press and television and another for the Internet".
And that would be because you are a moron. When two systems for publishing information differ so much as to give different meanings to what "publishing" means you HAVE to have different standards for each. You can't apply a process designed for a method in which the publication time takes days to another method where it takes milliseconds! Applying standards for offline systems to online systems would simply kill the concept of "real time" and could end up making any real time communications system (including the phone, SMS, email, etc.) illegal

[a85]

No

You clearly do not know what you are talking about. He is simply stating that websites have to take responsibility for content that they host. There are already algorithms that can automate this process by checking video for undesirable content. These may not be perfect, but with greater R&D from the likes of Google, it could do the job. The real issue is that Google et al do not want to incur the cost of having to check content - the issue is not that it cannot be done.

[umbrae]

User Content; Not Reporter Content

Funny how they are putting the same standards on regular users that they do on reporters. Google removed the content when notified. There will never be ANY way to filter video content like this, and it would bankrupt any company to try and review these manually.

What I find the most concerning? Would anyone had even KNOWN this happened to the poor kid WITHOUT IT BEING POSTED ON GOOGLE?!

Sounds like Google should be commended on helping provide evidence of a crime; not punished because they did not hand-sift through thousands of video clips.

[aabcdefghij987654321]

But it's a good thing this video was posted

Of course it's not good that this child was abused but it's good that the abuse was discovered because the video was posted.

Because the video was posted the abuse was discovered and actions were taken to put a halt to it. It's naive to think that this video shows the only instance of abuse though I'll guess that the attackers will make that claim.