MILAN (Reuters) - Verdicts were expected on Wednesday on Google executives charged over a bullying video posted on the company's Italian website, in a case that could set a precedent for Internet content responsibility. The ruling comes as Italy's government seeks to impose restrictions on hate pages on social networks and as YouTube, owned by Google, is locked in ...

ROME (Reuters) - An Italian Facebook group proposing that children with Down's syndrome be used for target practice has been shut down and Italy's equality minister threatened the "thousands of idiots" involved with legal action on Tuesday. The page, which showed a photo of a baby with Down's with the word "imbecile" written on its forehead, said an ...

Politicians and Internet activists in Italy have denounced a page on the social networking site Facebook that calls for children with Down Syndrome to be used for target practice. Police were trying to track down who set up the page, which features a photo of a Down Syndrome baby with the word "idiot" superimposed on it, and by late Sunday ...