BOB wrote:
> Sorry for the soap box RANT but I have a relative that is autistic.

But the severity of what was posted is completely independent of the what
the responsibilities of the various parties are.  All that your statement
does is add emotion to the issue, which all too often causes people to stop
thinking about it logically.

Do you really want to hold Google or any other hosting company responsible
for the content their user's post?  Think about where this would lead.  They
would have to have massive numbers of employees on staff that do nothing but
review content as quickly as possible after it is posted.  That's basically
a impossible job, so in the end there would be no hosting services.

Instead there needs to be a way for people to alert hosters to objectionable
content, a reasonable time for the hoster to review the content, and only
then have the hoster be judged on how they act towards that content.  If in
fact Google did act swiftly after this video was pointed out to them, and
they then cooperated with authorities to track down the perpetrators, it
seems to me they did everything that could be asked of them.

I have no problems with the people who put up the video being prosecuted
under hate crime or other laws.  The severity of what they posted should
have influence on their sentence, but has nothing to do with whether Google
is responsible or not.


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