Italian Judicial Decision Could Change the Web as We Know It

An Italian court has ruled that Google is criminally responsible for the content it hosts on the Web — a decision that Google spokespeople say could cause “the Web as we know it [to] cease to exist.”

From the Salt Lake City Tribune:

Legal experts agreed the case raises troubling questions for all U.S. Internet companies that do business globally. “It absolutely is a threat,” said Danny O’Brien, international outreach coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation of San Francisco.

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