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War on Scientology
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| RJT |
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/%22Anon..._Scientology%22
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The Internet-based group "Anonymous" has released statements on YouTube and via a press release, outlining what they call a "War on Scientology". Church of Scientology related websites, such as religousfreedomwatch.org have been removed due to a suspected distributed denial-of-service-attack (DDoS) by a group calling themselves "Anonymous". On Friday, the same group allegedly brought down Scientology's main website, scientology.org, which was available sporadically throughout the weekend.
Several websites relating to the Church of Scientology have been slowed down, brought to a complete halt or seemingly removed from the Internet completely in an attack which seems to be continuous. The scientology.org site was back online briefly on Monday, and is currently loading slowly.
On Monday, the group released a video titled: "Message to Scientology" on YouTube concerning their intentions to attack the Church of Scientology. A robotic voice on the video begins with "Hello leaders of Scientology. We are Anonymous," and continues by explaining their motivations: "Over the years we have been watching you, your campaigns of misinformation, your suppression of dissent and your litigious nature. All of these things have caught our eye. With the leakage of your latest propaganda video into mainstream circulation the extent of your malign influence over those who have come to trust you as leaders has been made clear to us. Anonymous has therefore decided that your organisation should be destroyed." The message goes on to state that the group intends to "expel Scientology from the Internet". As of Wednesday, the video had been viewed 370,347 times, favorited 2,473 |
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Interesting little grassroots war here - what do you all think of this? Great? Kind of scary (re: suppression of ideologies/freedom of religion)? At least they picked Scientology, right?
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| noikeee |
4-chan wits united vs Scientology?!
Awesome. Please, I hope this is really true. |
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| RJT |
| quote: | Originally posted by noikeee
4-chan wits united vs Scientology?!
Awesome. Please, I hope this is really true. |
Yeah, I mean it was linked on digg - so take it with a grain of salt, however, this could prove to be somewhat entertaining at the very least.
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Get yo pop-cone ready.
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| Zoso |
| Don't worry. Fox News is all over this one, baby! |
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| colonelcrisp |
| quote: | Originally posted by noikeee
4-chan wits united vs Scientology?!
Awesome. Please, I hope this is really true. |
/b/tards of the world UNITE |
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| MeLLyMeL |
There was a Church of Scientology in front of my job in Miami. I never saw anyone go in there.
This isn't going to be over for a while cuz I know those crazy Scientology fuks will find out who "Anonymous" is and probably sue them. |
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| Zoso |
I just hope the people waging this war realize that once you've donated enough to the "church," you are empowered and know who makes up "Anonymous". These people can't hide, I'm afraid.
(this message not endorsed by Tom Cruise, John Travolta, Will Smith, or Rob Turner) :p |
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| RJT |
| I endorse it, I endorse it! |
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| Ygrene |
| TBH, my spidey sense tells me that this is scary. |
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| Zoso |
| quote: | Originally posted by RJT
I endorse it, I endorse it! |
Well, I'm proper ed. Hugs?:gsmile: |
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| RJT |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ygrene
TBH, my spidey sense tells me that this is scary. |
+1
I don't know that I want the internet in charge of things. That just seems a like whole can of worms I'd rather keep in the root cellar until the apocalypse. |
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