Google is facing more legal trouble in Europe. Italian prosecutors are suing Google over some videos showing a Down's Syndrome patient being abused, AP says.

Oddly, the suit seems to fly right in the fact of EU law, which excuses Internet providers for content uploaded by users.

"As far as I understand, the entire European Union has decided there is no responsibility for the Internet provider for content. You can't blame the Internet for being a means of diffusing something whose causes lay somewhere else," said Carlo Alberto Carnevale Maffe, president of Assodigitale, a think-tank on digital technology. "You can't blame the manufacturer of paper because someone prints an insult on it."

The investigation is sought by Vividown, a Downs advocacy group.

Vividown President Edoardo Cenzi said that although Google removed the content within 12 hours after they reported its existence to authorities, the group took further action because "we don't believe these videos should be circulated without controls."

But Google says they don't want to "hide behind laws," said Stefano Hesse, a spokesman for Google Italia.

"We have clear policies about content and we always remove what we think is illegal content and what our users flag as illegal content," Hesse said. But he acknowledged that sometimes what is deemed offensive varies by culture.

"It could be religious. It could be pornography. It depends on the culture or the way of thinking of the people looking at the video, since it is a worldwide platform," Hesse said.