A denunciation for a young man from Siena who posted twelve videos of the Pope dressed as Hitler on YouTube.
A dozen videos of the Pope dressed as Hitler have appeared on YouTube, and they are proving very costly for a 26-year-old from Siena. A denunciation has been filed by the postal police of Ascoli Piceno against the university student, who apparently indulged his hobby of photo manipulation and video editing.
In the twelve videos uploaded to YouTube, Pope Benedict XVI appeared in the guise of Hitler or was associated with swastikas and Nazi symbols. Many other scenes were found on YouTube, ranging from the Pope as the devil to the arrival of a spaceship tasked with destroying the Vatican.
Once these videos were discovered—and they were reported by a citizen last November—the Postal Police requested the collaboration of Google, the tech giant that owns YouTube, to try and track down the person “behind” the registered user.
The charges against the 26-year-old from Siena include “racial and religious discrimination, offenses against a religious confession through vilification of persons and defamation,” in violation of the Mancino Law of 1993.
This story, which has just been released without very in-depth details (as is customary in such cases), serves as a warning to those who believe that anything goes online. Beyond that consideration, and regardless of the future developments of the case, what must be clear—especially to the very young on the web—is that there is no such thing as anonymity online.
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