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------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:19:39 -0400 To: politech@politechbot.com From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> Subject: FC: Vatican succeeds in shutting down "blasphemous" websites Send reply to: declan@well.com
Wait 'til the Vatican finds out about the First Church of Christ, Abortionist (which now, admittedly, seems to be defunct): http://web.archive.org/web/19981201233423/www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/o rg/fcca/
-Declan
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http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/07/10/1026185056490.html
Vatican complaint closes blasphemous sites
July 10 2002
Vatican City: Five internet sites carrying blasphemies against God and the Virgin
Mary have been shut in Italy after a complaint by the Vatican newspaper l'Osservatore Romano, the paper said today.
A special police unit "took over an internet site due to the blasphemous nature of unrepeatable words which accompanied the name of the Madonna," the paper said, adding that four similar sites had also been closed.
The police blacked out pages on the site so that internet surfers who try to visit them find nothing but the words "Site seized by the Head of Rome's Special Police Force on the orders of Rome's Chief Prosecutor".
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