Olin Lathrop wrote:
> 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.
>   
What is the old saying " if you want to dance you have to pay the fiddler."

The hosting services should put safe guards in place to be sure they can 
pass the identity of the up loader on to the law if they upload 
something like this.  Simple Google gives the identity of the up loader 
over to the law and they are in the clear.  All the forums I have signed 
up for do some kind of a check on people before they let them post 
messages.  Why is someone as big as Google to lazy to do it?


> 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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