Pope Blocks Magazine Over ‘Leaks’ Stain Picture
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Demonstrating once again to everyone that if there’s something you don’t want a lot of people to see in the internet age, trying to censor it isn’t your wisest move. See the Streisand Effect.
The Popestain censored
Hamburg district court said on Tuesday afternoon it would issue an injunction preventing further publication of the Titanic magazine, although copies already on the market can still be sold.
The front cover bears a photograph of the pope with a large yellow stain on the front of his cassock and the headline, “Hallelujah in the Vatican - the leak has been found!”
The back cover has a photo of him from behind with a large brown stain and the headline, “Another leak is found!”
Matthias Kopp, spokesman for the German Bishops’ Conference said was an infringement of Benedict’s personal rights and was illegal. The magazine had overstepped “any acceptable mark” with the pictures, he said.
But Titanic editor Leo Fischer said he was pursuing personal contact with the pontiff and was prepared to fight the case all the way through the courts.