It seems to me that there is just as much other objectionable stuff on You Tube for various reasons. You Tube does have a responsibility to police itself for more than just copyright violations but are we really going to have people who are responsible for overseeing all the business operations of a website containing literally millions of unsolicited videos posted with no prior consent other than the broad consent of establishing a user account thrown in jail every time some insensitive person posts documentation of their own or their friends’ insensitivity?

very entertaining and has a greats sense of humor. My laughing might seems cruel to some? Most of these videos showing abuse merely become evidence against those actually guilty and shows society how cruel it can be. Certain videos should be age appropriate for view, but to censor the real world will lead to worse evil.

The person who uploaded the video should already be in jail.

I don’t understand justice sometimes, shouldnt knife makers be in jail for not putting warnings like “do not stick this in someone else’s body”?

Google merely provided a venue. The person who uploaded it should be liable, not the service provider.

Then we have the issue of where the event occurred. It did not occur in Italy. It occurred either where the person uploaded it or where the server was located and probably neither of these is in Italy. If a news program created a video of a news event happening in England that mirrored this event, would Italy charge the news team and the BBC officers with a crime? They don’t have the jurisdiction. Just because people can see it in Italy does not make the crme happen in Italy.

Of course they can pass laws saying they do have jurisdiction, but in that direction lies madness. If Hormel shows a picture of a happy family having a Thanksgiving ham on their web site, is it a crime because it is viewable in a country where Islamic law prevails?

In the US, they are guilty of poor taste, not a crime. The individual who was made fun of may have a civil tort case against them or his parents may if he is a minor or not able to file is own cases. But this is not a crime here.

Richard Threlkeld

What’s the matter with uploading or hosting the video?
Reporters shoot war scenes with people dying and the television broadcasts it. Do you think their family like to see them getting killed?

There are lots of immoral, unethical, without taste, out of color things going on around the world and nobody does anything about it.
Now you want to imprison google people just because they did as everyone does: nothing?

C’mon… it seems to be more of a rip-off scheme against google than a fight for morality.

This could easily be an excellent opportunity to create a whole lot of new jobs mendatorily. Moderators to review the content of every new youtube upload. Sure, belief in mankind may be a casualty to those who get the gigs, but it may allow the rest of us to linger in our illusions a little longer. Other consequences may cut the good times even shorter. Amongst which may well be calls for harsher identifications of webusers and the likes. The world of humans is directed by staged opportunists and executed by real ones. And- if anything- this situation is a screaming opportunity to push forward with lingering agendas such as teh web-I.D.!
If you are real quiet and listen carefully you may hear the swushing of rubbing hands. I’m wondering where one might end up, following those sounds! ;o)

I think punishment should go to the person who uploaded the video also