When in Rome, do as the Romans. ;-)

Google does not screan every video... they can't really as there are likely millions if not billions of videos posted. They have to rely on whistle blowers and pull the video. As soon as there is a complaint the typically check and pull the videos. That really is all they can do. Besides you have to go out of your way and actually go to their website. They have posted rules and warnings. They pull videos all the time and close accounts when people break rules.

Saying that it is like the mailman would have to open the letter and post it publicly is not true. It would be more like someone sending out thousands of misterious envelopes to random households and the postman slapping a sticker on it saying that contents inside this envelope might be offensive. If people still open it then they get what the expect. The big difference is that in the case of the posman they would still have to deliver the all of the other letters to the addressed location, while Google only delivered a portion, got some complaints and pulled the rest, then spent the time (and money) to track down who posted the video and gave the information to the police, helping to have the bullies arrested. They helped to arrest the 'real' criminals and still they are in trouble. Likely that video was pulled within minutes of the complaint.

People (and countries) just think that Google is the 'evil empire' with deep coffers and want to point fingers to get some of that money. Mark my word civil lawsuits will likely fly too.

Google did exactly what it should have done - pull the video after being alerted. It has no more responsibility than that. Might as well hold Google responsible for beating the boy while they're at it - after all, the video was clearly made to be published. Ridiculous. I hope this lawsuit gets trashed the way it should be.

Italian schooling system, spoiled teens and parents that brought them up, not Google. This time, they're not evil. rilly ;)

The post office analogy is not working in this case. It would work if the post man opened the letter and stick it on the tree close to your house.
What goes on youtube becomes public, and clearly that breaks privacy laws.

They're right. Good analogy.

Saying it is like arresting a post office worker because someone sent a hate letter is a VERY good comparision. The thing is though it is pretty much impossible to stop things like this from happenning. They can deture it though and the fact that the video was taken down and Google helped the police catch the people who posted the video... and likely bullied the handycapped kid will likely deture other kids from doing the same. Throwing a few executives in jail will do nothing.

I think about the only thing Google could do is mave a message pop up saying that Google will help law enforcement agents arrest people posting illegal or hatefull videos whenever someone posts a new video, requiring you to click a check box stating that you understand this and will be personally responsible for the video you are posting.