Submission + - Internet can't be free according to Italian judges (corriere.it) 1
An anonymous reader writes: "There can't be a boundless prairie where all is allowed and nothing can be forbidden" according to the Italian judge who convicted Google senior officials for a video showing harassment against a disabled person, once appeared on Google Video. This could be read today in the official motivation of the sentence (article in Italian. Here the pretty bad Google Translate version, choose otherwise your favorite translator). In a blatant attempt to intimidate freedom of speech against preventive control (a practice very much common in Italy until not long ago) this sentence goes down hard against the very concept of freedom and "frontier" America stands for. The judge also cites how "privacy conditions" are not "clear enough" in the long legal blab of Google. How impolite. Luckily enough, the legal system in Italy is based on civil law, so a decision from a judge can't be seen as a new law like in America. Google is said to have appealed to that sentence.
