> On Feb 25, 2010, at 3:09 PM, BOB wrote:
>
> 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?
>
>
Lazy ?   Google absolutely has no responsibility to remove any content
regardless of how tacky , inaccurate , pornographic, ???? it is.    
They may
*choose* to do so in order to retain their customers.
Gus
>> 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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