Google Inc.’s top lawyer, David Drummond, appealed to a London audience in October to help fight censorship of the World Wide Web. He mentioned China, Turkey and Thailand as some of the worst offenders of free Internet speech.
Yet Italy is where prosecutors want Drummond to serve a yearlong prison term because of a 2006 video posting on Google. Prosecutors blame him and three other Google executives for not stopping teenaged boys in Turin from loading a 3-minute clip that they say violated Italy’s privacy law.
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