Anonymous: First strike in the war on Scientology
“Anonymous” releases statements outlining “War on Scientology”.
I thought ‘expelling Scientology from the internet’ was a pretty lofty goal for Anonymous, and was going to make a snide remark in yesterday’s post about the practicality / credibility of executing such a tactic, but the war is on and Anonymous is, apparently, winning.
From Wikinews:
“Church of Scientology related websites, such as religiousfreedomwatch.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.”
I actually find this to be unfortunate. It’s better for the Scientologist message, or any message, to be out there so people can examine it for what it is.
Posted by Formo-mormo on January 24th, 2008 12:55 pmI used to feel that way…then I think about Scientology enjoying tax-exempt status
From Wikipedia:
“Operation Snow White was the Church of Scientology’s name for a project during the 1970s to purge unfavorable records about Scientology and its founder L. Ron Hubbard. This project included a series of infiltrations and thefts from 136 government agencies, foreign embassies and consulates, as well as private organizations critical of Scientology, carried out by Church members; the single largest infiltration of the United States government in history with up to 5,000 covert agents.”
Posted by Agnostic 1 on January 25th, 2008 12:08 pmI should add…this whole thing began with the CoS’s attack on free speech. See today’s post that gives the backstory. They tried to suppress a video that made them look, well, crazy. Anonymous is their payback.
Posted by Agnostic 1 on January 25th, 2008 12:34 pm