Exactly. I know for a fact that this is the case in Europe (if you're interested, it's in the E-Commerce Directive, article 12: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal...). Cases are known in the Netherlands where acting as a moderator on a forum made someone liable for stuff that got posted there, whereas if you don't do anything with the content you're pretty much safe...

It's not in Google's best interest not to be able to read our e-mails anymore. So why do they do this?