Google execs guilty over Italy autism video case

AN Italian court convicted three Google executives of privacy violations yesterday because they did not act quickly enough to pull down an online video that showed bullies abusing an autistic boy.

The case was being closely watched around the world due to its implications for internet freedom.

In the first such criminal trial of its kind, Judge Oscar Magi sentenced the three to a six-month suspended sentence and absolved them of defamation charges. A fourth defendant, charged only with defamation, was acquitted.