Google Convictions Will Not Have Wide Web Impact

Italian Judge Oscar Magi found three of Google’s executives guilty of violating Italian privacy laws relating to a video posted online in 2006 of an autistic boy assaulted by three school bullies.

The executives were given six-month suspended sentences, although the judge cleared them, along with one other executive, of defamation charges. Google has vowed to appeal, saying that if the verdict is allowed to stand, “the Web as we know it will cease to exist.”

In Italy most of the media is owned and controlled by the Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, who is currently trying to take control of the Internet within his country. He wants to limit Internet access if he cannot control it, and he is actively pushing to regulate the Internet within Italy.

The court ruling if left to stand will only affect Italy and International Businesses that use the Internet within Italy. It is already being criticized worldwide. The ruling is not consistent with the European Union laws governing Internet content, and will not open the flood gates of new court actions worldwide.

If allowed to stand the ruling will not set any precedent in any truly democratic countries. Some conservative governments, authoritative regimes, and communist countries may adopt this ruling as a precedent, but most of those governments and countries do not contribute very much financially to the Internet.

This ruling is an attack on basic freedom. It comes from a country with a government that has little respect for freedom, or the principles of freedom, that is the very foundation upon which the Internet was built.

The Google convictions are not supported by the global community, and it only shows how one autocratic person in power can sway the arm of the judicial system to their own purpose and end.

Google’s executives, even if they had been sentenced to prison, would never have been turned over to the Italian Government. It is such a ridiculous charge and almost comical if not so sad, by the very nature of the transparency of the true intentions, from a country where the leader is in control of nearly all of the media.

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