Charging a Google executive criminally for a YouTube video is almost as crazy as indicting the Williams F1 Team in 1994 for manslaughter in the aftermath of the racing death of Formula One legend Aryton Senna. Google executives on trial in Italy over abusive video | Telegraph .

Four executives of the Italian branch of Google are on trial in Milan for allegedly infringing the privacy of a teenager with Down’s Syndrome who appeared in a video posted on one of its sites. According to the prosecution, the four officials from the online search engine had a “legal obligation to prevent” the video – which showed the boy being bullied by classmates – from being aired.

Thank goodness for jury nullification, because under no rational legal system can hosting a Web video be considered a personal crime by corporate officer.