Google not expected to check every upload reveals Italian court

Recently an Italian court said that Internet platforms like Google cannot be forced to filter each video uploaded by users without endangering freedom of thought and their own functionality.

The court revealed in the public ruling which was reviewed by Reuters "The possibility must be ruled out that a service provider, which offers active hosting can carry out effective, pre-emptive checks of the entire content uploaded by its users."

Further it added "An obligation for the Internet Company to prevent the defamatory event would impose on the same company a pre-emptive filter on all the data uploaded on the network, which would alter its own functionality."

The case began way back in 2006 when four students at a Turin school uploaded a mobile phone clip to Google Video showing them bullying the boy.

Search giant revealed it had cut the video straight away after being notified and cooperated with Italian authorities to help identify the bullies and bring them to justice.