Italian Police Censor "Blasphemous" Websites

ross.w writes "Italian authorities have shut down five Internet sites which reportedly carried blasphemies against God and the Virgin Mary, following a complaint by the Vatican's newspaper. The story is in this item on Australia's ABC News."

Confusion at the Vatican.

[King Of Chat]

A quick Google on "Madonna" and "blow-job", "anal", "rimming" etc. will probably turn up a lot of sites.

Gimme!

[ciryon]

1. Aren't there any mirrors? :-)
2. Where can I buy the 'blasphemious T-shirts'? They must be worth a fortune now!

Ciryon

Disagree with censorship

[JGoo]

I disagree with censorship in all instances. I wouldn't seek to take down sites which choose to blasphem, perhaps I would try and educate them. But if they are a lost cause, then they can burn in hell.

Is Linux Illegal in Italy?

[Anonymous Coward]

Hello,

Recently I've been introduced to an operating system known as Linux.

Lured by its low cost, I replaced Windows 98 on my computer with Linux. Unfortunately the more I use it the more I fear that this "Linux" may be an insidious way for the Dark One to gain a stronger foothold here on Earth. I know this may be a shocking claim, but I have evidence to back it up!

To begin with, Linux is based off of an older, obsolete OS called "BSD Unix". The child-indoctrinatingly-cute cartoon mascot of this OS is a devil holding a pitchfork. This OS -- and its Linux offspring -- extensively use what are unsettingly called "daemons" (which is how Pagans write "demon" -- they are notoriously poor spellers: magick, vampyre, etc.) which is a program that hides in the background, doing things without the user's notice. If you are using a computer running Linux then you probably have these "demons" on your computer, hardly something a good Christian would want! Furthermore in order to start or stop these "demons" a user must execute a command called "finger". By "fingering" a "demon" one excercises an unholy power, much the same way that the Lord of Flies controls his black minions.

Linux contains another Satanic holdover from the "BSD Unix" OS mentioned above; to open up certain locked files one has to run a program much like the DOS prompt in Microsoft Windows and type in a secret code: "chmod 666". What other horrors lurk in this thing?

Consider some of these other Linux commands: "sleep", "mount", "unzip", "strip" and "touch". All highly suggestive in a sexual nature. I know that our Lord cannot approve of these, and I urge them to be renamed to something appropriate to the Christian community. Interestingly "CONTROL-G" (the sixth key from the left of the keyboard) does an abort. To write files a "VI" editor is included. All these are to ensnare the unsuspecting christian who could get tempted by typing "VIVIVI" all day long.

Fourth, Linux uses a flavor of DOS known as Bash. Bash is an acronym for "Bourne Again Shell". On the surface this would appear to be supportive of the Lord. However, remember that even Satan can quote the bible for his own purposes! While I believe Linux may be born-again, its obvious by the misspelling of "born" that its not born-again in an Christian church. Will the lies ever cease?

Additionally, one of the main long-haired hippies involved with the GNU Free Software Foundation supports communism, contraception and abortion. He has consistently supported 60's counter-cultural "values", and his web site even advocates government support of contraception. He also wears fake halos, and has quips about his made-up church that relates to his free software. I find such blasphemy to be extremely unsettling.

One must also remember that the creator of Linux, a college student named Linux Torvaldis, comes from Finland. I'm sure all the followers of Christ are aware of the heritical nature of the Finnish: from necrophilia to human sacrifice, Finnish culture is awash in sin. I find little reason to believe anything good and holy could arise from this evil land.

Finally, let us remember that there is an alternative to using the Satan-powered Linux. I think history has shown us that Microsoft is quite holy. I'm told that its founder, William Gates is a strong supporter of our Lord and I encourage my fellow Christians to buy only his products to help keep the Devil at bay.

I wish I had more time to expound upon my findings. Unfortunately a family of Jews has moved in across the street and I must go speak to them of Jesus Christ before they are condemned to eternal hellfire.

Please investigate this as you see fit and I'm sure you'll reach the same conclusions that I have.

Re:Confusion at the Vatican.

[tunah]

Kids these days, too lazy to link [google.com].

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The Spanish Inquisition

[Te1waz]

They should have sent the 'Spanish Inquisition'

"Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition."
I guess they're tired of hearing this one...
Apologies to Python(Monty) Ltd.

While your at it

[Mattygfunk]

Italian authorities have shut down five Internet sites which reportedly carried blasphemies against God and the Virgin Mary...

Since Bill is the devil is microsoft.com next?

Re:Disagree with censorship

[Te1waz]

Send in the Spanish Iquisition..

A session in the 'comfy chair' will teach them not to do it again...

Heck...

[gusnz]

I hope none of these Roman Prosecutors ever try browsing Slashdot at -1... going by the posts so far on this article we'd be censored in no time :).

What next?

[RebRachman]

Next thing you know they'll be shutting down sites which contain sexually-explicit stuff, like describing what the priests have been doing with the alterboys...

Re:Offensive speech

[Silverhammer]

Your suggestion that "anything can be argued to be offensive to anyone" is plainly not true

You, sir, apparently have not yet encountered the American tort system...

Re:Amazing

[DrSkwid]

Wonder how the world will look like in 20 years? 50? 100?

one big shopping mall

NOT ACTUALLY FUNNY, PLEASE DO NOT MOD UP ANYMORE

[bwoodring]

Please, show some decency here. This is about as far from funny as imaginable.

Re:Hmm

[Phillip2]

"Note that "freedom of expression" != "freedom of slandering" !!!"

Unfortunately according to law Jesus and the Virgin Mary are both dead, and therefore can not actually be slandered.

The other point is that freedom of religion does not also cover freedom of lack of religion. Atheism is not classified as a religion, and is not protected under the human rights convention in the same way that a religion is. Odd but true.

Phil

Re:In a word: "NO"

[Pig Hogger]

The Danish police have no right to shut down any web-sites

So this means that my website about muffins is safe???

www.jesus.com

[Zabu]

Come get him you italians.

Bathe with Jesus [jesus.com]

I think that this is just a clever way to get young women.
Way to go Jesus!
WWJD? Make a website that gets him play.

Re:NOT ACTUALLY FUNNY, PLEASE DO NOT MOD UP ANYMOR

[BobNET]

I prefer to read THOUGHTFUL comments and posts, not stupid one liners that just repeat what has been said a million times over.

Then you came to the wrong place...

Re:Oh God Damn

[osgeek]

Have you guys ever seen a man walk on water?

Yes, lots of times. Haven't you ever watched a game of ice hockey?

One nation under god

[tomdarch]

Claro?