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An Italian court has convicted three Google executives in a trial over a video showing a teenager with Down's Syndrome being bullied.
The Google employees were accused of breaking Italian law by allowing the video to be posted online. Judge Oscar Magi absolved the three of defamation but convicted them of privacy violations. Google has considered the trial a threat to freedom on the Internet because it could force providers to attempt an impossible task — prescreening thousands of hours daily of YouTube footage. 
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