How Italian Police Shut Down U.S. Web Servers

gessel writes: "CNN has an article describing Italian police shutting down a U.S. hosted website deemed in Italy to be illegally blasphemous. The article goes on to describe the ramifications and U.S. efforts along the same lines."

Comments

Has anyone tried to mirror the content yet?

[leereyno]

To me the best way to respond to this kind of bullshit is to mirror the content as far and wide as possible, and advertise the existance of the mirrors. Let the pope put that in his corn cob pipe and smoke it!

Lee

Re:Not really a law issue.

[Anonymous Coward]

Looks like a non-story to me.

A complete non-story.

And nobody seems to be remembering the whole issue that set this off in the first place: hatespeech against the Blessed Mother. Even in the United States, I have a tough time seeing how this is legal; one does not have the right to yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater, and you can make the case that this is exactly what the Web site was doing, from a theological point of view.

What kind of double standard do we set when it is illegal to post the names and addresses of abortion providers, yet perfectly legal to post the most hideous and unmentionable blasphemies from the minds of man?

italy descents into fascism ... again.

[Edmund Blackadder]

Fortunately history has shown that italians make really half assed fascists.

Re:You know what?

[TRACK-YOUR-POSITION]

The reason people say this a lot is because, of all the nationalities in the world, it's the Americans who tend to think that the world should be doing things their way, and that everyone else is just backwards.

This is crap. People EVERYWHERE think their way is the best way, ESPECIALLY Europeans! At least America tends to save it's sharpest condemnations for the most outrageous offenders--China, North Korea, Iraq--while accepting that Europe is for the most part a decent place, human rights wise. Sure, we'd like to see more free speech, but we don't make anywhere near as much noise as Europeans do over, say, American capital punishment.

It's also worth mentioning that the countries we scream loudest at tend to be non-democratic --therefore they cannot claim it is the will of the people they rule that human rights violations continue.

We need your help trolls!

[linzeal]

Not mirroring content but I'm sending a nice "slanderous" email to the Italian Police and the Vatican.

Form to contact the police, can anyone dig up a list of real email or fax numbers for police in Italy?

pope's email

If some nice troll could come up with a nice "form letter" I'm sure more people would participate.

Re:Not really a law issue.

[jcr]

And nobody seems to be remembering the whole issue that set this off in the first place: hatespeech against the Blessed Mother. Even in the United States, I have a tough time seeing how this is legal;

Let me just put it this way, son: fuck you, fuck your church, fuck every child-raping scumbag in the vatican, and fuck the "blessed mother" who stands as the symbol of your twisted cult's vicious misogyny.

Can't you see how utterly depraved it is to worship a VIRGIN MOTHER? To be so utterly anti-life, that you deny sex as the source of human life? To be so utterly anti-logic that you insist that your moronic followers have to accept that your messianic claimaint must have been born to a woman who was too much of a tight-ass to even FUCK her HUSBAND?

You want to bitch about hate speech, how about your cult's hatred of the human race?

Now, fuck off and die.

-jcr

Those who are ignorant of art history repeat it

[wytcld]

A major theme of Christian - particularly Catholic - religious art over the centuries is the sexualization of the Infant Jesus. Why do you think so many of the priests are getting into young boys. There may be no clearer case of a link between the contents of artistic expression and truly repulsive, criminal behavior.

The sexualization of Infant Jesus occurs as a displacement of the sexuality of Mary. The site that was defaced by the Italian police, by resexualizing Mary, was bring sexuality back to its healthy focus and helping save future generations of young boys from priestly predation. This good work must be continued. Government repression of the resexualization of Mary leads indirectly to child rape.

But then, considering the state of most state schools, whether in Italy or here, that's what government, at least metaphorically, is largely about anyway. We must reclaim Eden, reject the cannibal rites of Rome, and cease devouring our young in the name of a Mary robbed of a sexuality which shone even to God - that being her triumph.
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