Reporting Google high revenues and the company acquiring promising businesses, this is a different report for a change: Four Google employees face charges. The issue arose in Italy where the charges are of defamation and failure to exercise control over personal data, meaning Google was supposed to control the flow of data. The three minute video that was not supposed to go anywhere especially on the World Wide Web, contained four Italian teens mocking and hitting a teenager with Down’s Syndrome.

The content was recorded in September 2006, and uploaded on Google Video – but removed within a day (before being viewed 12,000 times) after complaints from the Italian Interior Ministry. In the U.S. however, laws protect Web service providers and their employees from such incidents, where they are held responsible for crimes their users commit. Though in Europe it is the opposite as service providers are supposed to prescreen content before it is publicly posted. Google maintains that charges against its employees are unwarranted, as technically the video was uploaded on a Google server in the U.S. not in Italy.

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