Is The Whole World Going InterNUTS?

With the recent indictment, in Italy, of four Google executives who had no responsibility for the uploading and subsequent posting of a video showing an Italian child with Down syndrome being harassed and humiliated, the world courts have yet again taken a turn for the far worse.  This ruling sets a dangerous precedent for future internet censorship both in Italy and abroad.

“A company’s rights cannot prevail over a person’s dignity. This sentence sends a clear signal,” public prosecutor Alfredo Robledo told reporters outside the Milan courthouse.

Not to be outdone, Apple has recently banned what they determine to be "sexy" apps from it's app store in an effort to placate complaints that certain people, perhaps Rosie O'Donnell or Ellen Degeneres, find unacceptable as a matter of "taste."  Can you imagine the outcry if religious apps were so banned because they upset certain agnostics or atheists or heaven forbid Muslims? (can you even say heaven anymore)

Apple's Phil Schiller: "It came to the point where we were getting customer complaints from women who found the content getting too degrading and objectionable."


Google has recently caved to the Chinese government with regards to not providing banned search results.  Results the PRC deems subversive and a threat to their country.  Like the truth.


"Google has decided that in order to create the best possible search experience for our mainland China users we will not include sites whose content is not accessible," company spokeswoman Debbie Frost said Friday.


The internet, for all it's faults, is one of the few sources of information that is not state sponsored.  i.e. if you don't like the way a story reads, you can likely find another slant. The continuance of altering this ideal is frightening at best.  SharkyandSharky believe Freedom of information is - FREEDOM.

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