FC: Vatican succeeds in shutting down "blasphemous" websites

From: Declan McCullagh (declanat_private)
Date: Sun Jul 14 2002 - 20:19:39 PDT

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    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/org/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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