politics, digital moons and idiots

There was and still there is much talk in digital Italy about media technologies and disclosure, following the 'confidential' US PDF report about the Calipari killing that was, well, not so confidential once you cut and pasted... And, hear hear, it was a humble blogger who spotted the bug first, with traditional news agencies trailing. Yeah. [read summary of events in English, courtesy of Antonio Roversi]

Now, what makes the news instead? You won't beleive this: Italians seek to close Web site showing pope as Nazi. Now that's hot, there resides the true power of the Net! The pope! A Nazi!! A website!!! Dark forces of defamation, trying to undermine the holiest of institutions. Bad, bad technology, bad.

Now, this reminds me of the zen adage, when the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger. Or the Pope weaing a swastika.

[ stop press: one major Italian newpspaper, Il Corriere della Sera, features the story and the blogger on their website; but I want to see it in print... ]

[ latest news: blimey, it is in print ]