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Re:Serious threat to the web in Italy by gaius on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @01:48PM (#1148718)
Officers of the company are the company, legally.

But the cause of Freedom is not best served by holding up "freedom to laugh at retards" as a fundamental right.

Let's not forget that Google is perfectly technologically capable of filtering its content - and we know that because it does it in China.

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Re:Serious threat to the web in Italy by jackowayed on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @08:09PM (#1149731)
It's not "freedom to laugh at retards" that's the issue. No one is arguing that Google should have been able to keep the video up (not that there isn't some merit to that argument), just that as long as Google complies with police requests in a timely matter, the company and its employees should not be liable for someone else using their service to post content.
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Re:Serious threat to the web in Italy by redcap on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @07:49PM (#1149694)
Due to its user submitted content, isn't youtube just banned outright in China?
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Re:Serious threat to the web in Italy by InclinedPlane on Thursday February 25, 2010 @12:46AM (#1150104)
"Officers of the company are the company, legally."

In any LLC or publicly held company this is simply not true, legally.

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