We have been following the growing threat to free speech in the West through blasphemy and hate crime prosecutions, here. Now, Italian prosecutors in Milan have criminally charged four Google employees after a video was posted by students showing the bullying of an autistic child in late 2006.
Ultimately, the police identified the student responsible for uploading the video and she was sentenced to 10 months community service. However, they proceeded to go after Google for the fact that the video appeared on Google Video.
The defendants are David Drummond, Arvind Desikan, Peter Fleischer and George Reyes who were charged with criminal defamation and a failure to comply with the Italian privacy code. In an outrageous breach of free speech rights, a judge in Milan convicted David Drummond, Peter Fleischer and George Reyes for failure to comply with the Italian privacy code.
It is another example of how the West is steadily criminalizing speech with as little as a whimper of objection. Countries like Italy are allowing defamation, privacy, and blasphemy claims to chip away at a core foundation of Western Civilization. This Court showed precious little concern over the implications of its ruling for the Internet specifically and free speech in general. The ruling is another wake-up call for civil libertarians that we need an international campaign in support of free speech to address these insidious trends.
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Isn’t there something that if you sue them it has to be in the location of the corporation. Contract of adhesion or some such nonsense.
Obama Signs One-Year Extension of Patriot Act – on a Saturday Night Of Course
With no debate – or media attention – President Barack Obama has signed an extension for what many considered the most controversial aspects of the USA PATRIOT Act. The provisions, set to expire Sunday without the signature of Obama, include extensions to allow:
-1) “roving” wiretaps, permitting surveillance on multiple phones and e-mail addresses.
-2) court-approved seizures of records and property in anti-terrorism operations.
-3) surveillance on “lone-wolf” foreign nationals, who may not be part of a recognized terrorist group.
It seems odd to me that the Italian courts chose to convict Google employess, who played no part in the crime that was committed, yet there is no mention of what happened to the students who were causing pain & suffering to the Autistic boy in the video.
Police were able to identify, and charge the female student who uploaded the video, but again, no mention of the punishment to the bullies. If anything, justice systems everywhere should be looking to these sick videos as evidence to convict actual criminals.
“If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place,” Schmidt said. “But if you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines, including Google, do retain this information for some time. And it’s important, for example, that we are all subject to the United States Patriot Act. It is possible that information could be made available to the authorities.”
My jaw hit the floor when I heard that. Now they are just coming right out and telling us that they will turn our data over to the feds. Based on what I know about how much information they have, it’s really some scary stuff.
In addition to information collected from searches, Google also saves sent and received e-mails, including e-mail drafts, attachments and chat messages through its Gmail system.
What these big search engines have is the eye in the sky. It’s like the totalitarian dictator’s dream. They know everything and with a couple of mouse clicks, they could find every single person in the country who observes Passover or attends a Catholic or Baptist church or who buys ammo.
Here is just one example how google is adapting to online searches and working with a government authority.
Bdaman 1, February 28, 2010 at 11:05 am
And it’s important, for example, that we are all subject to the United States Patriot Act.
nobama 1, February 28, 2010 at 9:15 am
Obama Signs Extension of Patriot Act – on a Saturday Night Of Course
With no debate – or media attention – President Barack Obama has signed an extension for what many considered the most controversial aspects of the USA PATRIOT Act. The provisions, set to expire Sunday without the signature of Obama, include extensions to allow:
-1) “roving” wiretaps, permitting surveillance on multiple phones and e-mail addresses.
-2) court-approved seizures of records and property in anti-terrorism operations.
-3) surveillance on “lone-wolf” foreign nationals, who may not be part of a recognized terrorist group.
Alan Davidson, the company’s chief lobbyist, stopped by the White House in March. Vint Cerf had an appointment with US CTO Aneesh Chopra in September. Google CEO Eric Schmidt was at the White House four times in 2009, and though he managed two visits with the POTUS, both were in larger groups than the Gates get-together. (Google’s former top policy wonk, Andrew McLaughlin, is now a key player in the executive branch tech team.)
Bdaman:
the Patriot Act, as I have said from the beginning, is the child to the future American Gestapo. It needs to be done away with and quickly.
It doesn’t surprise me though that Google would be okay with it, look at the politics of their 3 key people and you will have your answer.
And speaking of politics, ever wonder why California is broke? Ahnold took economic advice from Warren Buffet. He may be good at making money for himself but he apparently doesn’t know crapola about making money for other people. Take a look at his true economic views. He ain’t no capitalist.
I don’t consider anything that involves third parties to be “private”. I have not established any trust relationship with Google (at least not when searching the internet).
If I want privacy, I have face-to-face communications in a area that I have a right to control. If I need to do it via the internet, I use a program like X-IM.
Google hits back over algorithm dispute
By Maija Palmer in London, Richard Waters in San Francisco and Nikki Tait in Brussels
Published: February 25 2010 12:47 | Last updated: February 26 2010 01:20
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/2e16bd92-2209-11df-98dd-00144feab49a.html
P.S. try not to depend on Google for all your searches. Put your inquiry into the other ones like Bing, Yahoo, or the latest one IXquick. IXquick offers you more privacy.
Search Googlegate in google and see the results. Then do it in the other search engines. 47,900 in google,
47,900 in google,
75,299,853 matching results in IXquick
1-10 of 76,900,000 results in Bing
Climategate
2,410,000 for climategate in Google
51,600,000 results in Bing
53,099,332 matching results in IXquick
This is just two examples and this is why Google is under fire right now trying to defend. Plus they are in bed with this administration.
I will also advise you that if you have Google Toolbar installed it’s best to uninstall it. Just go to Google.com then search, but take Google completely out of your system. It is also wise to delete your history 4 or 5 times a day.
Bdaman,
How can you say that its safe if it also searches google too?
Because with the toolbar you have a google product installed in your system.
I suggest no toolbars installed from anyone of the providers.
Based on cultural history, Europe has a much stricter view on the “right” to privacy than we, based on our own cultural history, do. There was an interesting article on this situation in Sunday’s New York Times.
I suspect Google is learning some cultural lessons as it expands into other nations.
@Byron You ask “ever wonder why California is broke?” No need to wonder; that’s easy; “SATSQ”. It’s called “Proposition 13″ … one part of it has been enabling the minority Republicans to block every single ressponsible budget for the past many years. If it doesn’t cut taxes for the wealthy (including corporations) … they don’t let it happen. If it does anything to address the services which most (non-wealthy) Californians expect the state to provide (good schools and parks being just two examples) … they don’t let it happen.
Not that Ahnult has been good, but the blame isn’t only his. Remember that the recall election which shoved him into power was triggered by (a) fiscal problems caused by Enron and other Texas “Friends Of W” looting $50 billion or so out of the state, with federal acquiescence (if not assistance); (b) media (and republican) unrest about some minor vehicle taxes that addressed a different segment of the deficit.
@Eh
You observe: “It seems odd to me that the Italian courts chose to convict Google employess, who played no part in the crime that was committed, yet there is no mention of what happened to the students who were causing pain & suffering to the Autistic boy in the video.”
Seconded!! And in fact, it was those students who falsely claimed that they had the rights to post the video, and caused all the trouble (because they didn’t).
Why should they be getting off with less punishment than the folk who just removed the video when asked to do so?
It seems like a small town letting off “the locals” (despite them being guilty), while punishing the folk from “out of town” (despite them being innocent). Also, it seems if being from the US is a negative which outweighs most other factors. That also seemed to be true in the case of the American student convicted of murdering Meredith Kercher.
One must also observe the media filter/bias in effect in such cases. (Some from Itailian press, and perhaps Berlosconi; Some from US coverage; some from others.) It’s possible that coverage of the real miscreants has been censored for various reasons. Even if they were minors though, I would have expected any competent journalist would have mentioned what happened to them (if not their names). Perhaps I date myself by expecting competent journalism, though it’s a huge concession to accept that “good” journalism is rare…
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No person of the more evident things like bringing her flowers or singing her a serenade. No. Lease out me contain the more underhanded thoughts.
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Don’t denote her in the mesial of the night.
Just switched the movie “Mist”. A rare cloudy shit. Make no mistake – young recruits through the fog came in 1941. Slang, Ponte, cheeky Bazaar, light hazing. In general, our realities. Been caught guys in trouble, fired at them, the commander was killed. Then he killed a couple of them, until they began to understand what is happening.
OK, I sit at the screen and talk – “Yes SHOOT YOU, CHE in this complex,” of course not have to. I did not shoot at people, the war was not, therefore, to give advice to others in such a case would be foolish.
BUT I am a computer http://ngadla.ru/ – games about the war I know that NOT ENEMY unleashes, the prisoner must not talk, the more believe in him and believed the enemy is not that war is BAD.
And in the movie at least two have already died because of these errors. Well, nonsense, unacceptable. if boys yard, you should know that, if home is on computer games should understand it. And show us some hybrids incomprehensible.
In general, turbidity and shit, especially when the reasoning went, not so easy to kill a man. ” Any fool could understand that is not easy, especially deep philosophy here is no.
PS. The Germans behaved in a village almost disguised NKVD-Schnick.
To sponsor a child to participate in the Will County Boxing Afterschool Program call 877-806-4611
Boxing and martial arts have a purpose beyond winning fights, students at Lincoln School in Joliet learned recently.
Dr. Jennifer Bertino-Tarrant, Will County Regional Superintendent of Schools, said the Will County Boxing Association, which runs a gym in Joliet, “offers a positive after-school program for students. I would eventually like to see all our students involved in some after- or before-school program. I believe it is important for children to have some connection with outside community organizations,” Bertino-Tarrant said.
Physical skills can translate into a way of life as practice helps develop character and focus, members of the Boxing Association told sixth- through 12th-graders at Lincoln, the Regional Safe School for students facing expulsion or multiple suspensions.
Through traing and practice, “you find a way to fix yourself,” said Joseph Awinongya, a professional boxer who trains youth boxers. “Be a champion in school,” he said. “Stay in school because life is not easy. You guys may think life is easy, but life is very, very hard,” he said.
“We’re here to talk to you all about character,” said Derek Drey, 21, who plans to attend Joliet Junior College. “Boxing shapes your body,” Drey said. “You guys can change your life.”
The Boxing Association is performing a service for the young people of Joliet’s East Side, said Tony Pena, a member of the Joliet Elementary District 86 School Board.
Pena said Awinongya “has done something nobody else has done. Life is like boxing,” he said. “It’s a one-on-one situation/ Boxing will help you look in the mirror, build your self-esteem,” he said. “We’re trying to give you the opportunity to change, to do something good for yourself.”
“The gym is a great place to vent,” said coach Delwin C. Fields, adding that physical activity is an “outlet to turn my energy positive.” Positive energy can overcome the mistakes of the past, Fields said. “All I see is winners out here.”
Octavius Webb, 20, said he is turning his life around after going off-track as a college student on a football scholarship. “Boxing keeps me focused on making a better life. It helps me with my anger,” said Webb, who attends Joliet Junior College.
Sixteen-year-old Adrian Palacios is successfully blending sports and study, Awinongya said. Palacios, a student at Joliet Catholic Academy, expects to attend college on a wrestling scholarship. He doesn’t neglect his schoolwork, Awinongya said. “Adrian has to get A’s and B’s.”
But boxing isn’t a boys-only sport, as Fields demonstrated by sparring with Jaecee Burkart, 17. Fields said Jaecee, who is home-schooled, is one of the best. “A woman can be a boxer,” he said.
The gym also offers a martial arts program, which emphasizes mental strength as much as physical prowess, instructor Quinton McCottrell said. He said martial arts originated among Chinese monks, who, for a while, were the only ones allowed to practice those skills because they could be trusted not to use them for personal gain.
“It builds character, but it’s also a culture,” McCottrell said. “Martial arts build discipline, character and focus.”
Review Of The Latest Nokia T5000
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http://cellphones.abouts.us/review-of-the-latest-nokia-t5000/
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