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Google Privacy Counsel Facing Criminal Charges
ProfJonathan writes "According to a story in the IAPP's Privacy Advisor, Google's Paris-based global privacy counsel, Peter Fleischer, is facing criminal charges in Italy for defamation based upon a user's posting of a video to Google Video. Mr. Fleischer was on his way to the University of Milan for a speaking engagement when he was met by Italian law enforcement officials. As with the 1997 case of Compuserve's Felix Somm and the 2006 arrest in Texas of BetOnSportsUK's CEO during a layover on a trip to Costa Rica, this case once again highlights the risks faced by executives and employees of online companies whose activities may be legal and protected in their own countries, but illegal elsewhere in the world. Troubling, and worth watching."
What other group of people use the technique of massively affecting innocent people's lives in order to fuel their (mostly unrelated) cause?
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You know, when the government is elected by public vote (like the Italian) those laws aren't "government censorship", their the "society censorship". People chose what is and isn't right to display publicly. You can be supportive of a full disclosure (including CP and etc), but most people isn't, and the majority rules.
If Google folds to democratic laws, their complying to the people wishes. If they fold to dictatorship laws, well, first their a company not a resistance organization. Second, I bet it's way more effective to soften than dictatorship to offer a semi-caped Google than no Google at all.
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Just because various countries are sovereign states doesn't mean it's inappropriate to criticize them
I didn't say it was.
I was referring to the far more overt thuggery in which the US has engaged for decades. There's a big difference between criticising another country's government and flying in, abducting its citizens and throwing them in a foreign jail without charge or right of appeal.