A complaint for a young man from Siena who posted on YouTube twelve video of the Pope dressed as Hitler.
There are a dozen of them video of the Pope dressed as Hitler appeared on YouTube which are costing a 26-year-old from Siena dearly. In fact, a complaint, by the postal police of Ascoli Piceno, against the university student who evidently indulged in the hobby of photomontage and video editing.
In the twelve videos uploaded to YouTube, in fact, Pope Benedict XVI appeared dressed as Hitler or was associated with swastikas and Nazi symbols. Many other scenes were found on YouTube: from the devil Pope to the arrival of a spaceship tasked with destroying the Vatican.
Once these videos were discovered – reported by a citizen last November – the Postal Police requested the collaboration of Google, the giant that owns YouTube, to try to track down the person “behind” the registered user.
The 26-year-old from Siena is charged with "racial and religious discrimination, offenses against a religious denomination through vilification and defamation," violating the 1993 Mancino law.
The story, which has just been released without much detail (as is standard practice in these cases), should be a warning to those who believe that anything goes online. Beyond this consideration and regardless of the future implications of the story, what must be clear—especially to young people online—is that there is no anonymity that can help online.
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