The more and more I hear of things being pulled off youtube, google,
facebook, etc the more I think it won't be long before host sites will have
to put a vetting process in place. Whilst I agree you should be able to
post things and the people responsible in this instance should have had
their knuckles rapped quite severely, I do think that something should be in
place to protect the vulnerable. I just think the way the Italians have
perhaps dealt with it in this case was perhaps a bit odd. On the one hand I
can see the privacy thing because the boy being bullied obviously wouldn't
have given his consent to be filmed but I think it would fall under
discrimination law in other countries, so it's a tough one to call.
We've had a few cases in the UK of kids posting video captures of bullying
in the playground on youtube and instances where criminals have had access
to Facebook and been harrassing their victims' families from their prison
cells and they've only been kicked off when it's been reported to FB. When
it comes to people with disabilities & victims of crime I think they need
protecting. We're supposed to be living in an age when we're trying to get
people to integrate more into society and things like this only serve to
promote prejudice.
On 24 February 2010 11:43, Andy Brown wrote:
> Claire Wood wrote:
> > Hi All
> >
> > Thought you might find this interesting if you haven't already seen it.
> > Basically Google bosses were prosecuted in Italy under Italian privacy
> > laws and found guilty because a video showing an autistic boy being
> bullied
> > had been posted on their site. The people who had posted it though just
> got
> > expelled from school.
> >
> > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8533695.stm
> >
>
> This is bad as it places the actions of a person on the space providers.
> In the US there was a lawsuit against an provider, the ruling said that
> as long as the provider did not "moderate" they were not responsible of
> what was posted.
>
> The person(s) posting the video should have been the ones prosecuted.
> But then that is one difference between the US and Italy law.
>
> Andy
>
> -
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@documentation.openoffice.org
> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@documentation.openoffice.org
>
>
--
Best wishes
Claire Wood
