http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h-40ArK-eMbvpRDJJSojvopz60Vw

[headline changed from "Court to jail Google execs in Italy", thanks Roger & Juha-Matti! -Philipp]

Background (Feb '09):
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2009-02-03-n69.html

Joha-Matti: Your heading does not represent what is being reported. A better heading would have been "Court asked to jail Google execs in Italy".

Thanks for the feedback. It's not the best available, it is written with mobile browser without copy&paste feature :)

Quoting the article with desktop machine...

"Italian prosecutors sought six-month to a year sentences for four Google executives Wednesday over an Internet video showing the bullying of a teenager with Down's Syndrome, the company said.

Google strongly denounced the case in a statement, calling it "a direct attack on a free, open Internet."

The four executives have been on trial in a Milan court over the video, which prosecutors argue Google had a legal responsibility to prevent being shown.

In the video, uploaded using a Google video site where it remained for nearly two months in late 2006, the teenager was bullied by four students in front of more than a dozen others who did not intervene.
..."

http://peterfleischer.blogspot.com/2009/11/today-in-milan.html