Italians Censor American Websites
"Italian police closed down five U.S.-based Web sites that had been blaspheming Catholicism with a combination of pornographic pictures and offensive statements about the Madonna, police said Tuesday." The man, apperantly is from Italy [Rome] and was arrested in 2000. Why this is only making the rounds now, is anyone's guess.
It seems that the Italian government signed a special treaty with the Catholic Church (in the 1920s) which is also written into the Italian Constitution (dated 1947) and it obliges Italy to act against people who dare to slander the common religious sentiments. What irks me, is that Italians closed down a site based in the US! This is very troubling from the perspective of anyone, anyone publishing on the internet.
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chuck says:
Recent world events should have demonstrated what happens when people take their
religion too seriously. I myself am a Christian [deeply so] but I still love
and laugh at such things as Jesus action figures and light-up pictures of the
last supper. Lighten up people!
Posted by: chuck at July 10, 2002 2:40 PM #
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