Thursday, February 25, 2010

Ethical Issues- Google Executives & Facebook defaced

If an organisation of info. system is hosting information, are they responsible for the content?

Google Executives jailed in Italy

In Italy, three Google executives have been found guilty and given six month suspended sentences because of a video that shows the mistreatment of a boy with Down Syndrome.

[Reasons and arguments why prosecutors thought google was liable]

Prosecutors argued that Google execs were negligent; not responding to requests to take down the video
Google hosts YouTube, therefore there is a question to are they responsible for the content/

Google's defence- that the execs had nothing to do with the video and that it is almost imopossible to review every single frame in a video to permit it to be uploaded online

Facebook urged to act after memorial sites defaced

Premier of QLD, Anna Bligh, has written a letter to Facebook to review memorial pages on its site after a case of a young girl's memorial page being defaced by certain people.

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