Scientology vs Anonymous?

[Smelly Button Ears]

I was reading about these anonymous guys, sounds like a totse on roids. Hacking scientology sites, then by night wearing drama masks and vandalizing,calling bomb threats(including olympics), telephone harassment and tons of hate mail. So is this a technological holy war? youtube has a bunch of videos on this

[Rory]

Is the 'anonymous website' that fox news is always talking about actually 4chan?

[AngryFemme]

You know, I think it's a bit gutless to protest something you're passionately against while hiding behind anonymity and masquerading as evil internet characters. They should show their face, put their neck on the line. Then I might be in awe of how something so ridiculous warrants pulling together the loose organization and vigilantism these folks did. At this rate, they're only getting mild internet lulz and the growing concern and sympathy from the other half who are soon going to band together to "protect and preserve and recognize" $cientology as a religion.

[Levo75]

Originally Posted by AngryFemme

You know, I think it's a bit gutless to protest something you're passionately against while hiding behind anonymity and masquerading as evil internet characters. They should show their face, put their neck on the line. Then I might be in awe of how something so ridiculous warrants pulling together the loose organization and vigilantism these folks did. At this rate, they're only getting mild internet lulz and the growing concern and sympathy from the other half who are soon going to band together to "protect and preserve and recognize" $cientology as a religion.

lol, $cientology isn't a religion it's a scam.
Also anonymous doesn't do the protests and the ddos for any religious reasons. They sought to protect the internet from opression of freedom of speech.

Also, 5 minutes of googling will show you what $cientology really is.

[ArmsMerchant]

Cultish aspects aside, the few actual tenets of scientology I've seen seem reasonable enough, but their terminology is off-putting, I think.

Originally Posted by ArmsMerchant

Cultish aspects aside, the few actual tenets of scientology I've seen seem reasonable enough, but their terminology is off-putting, I think.

you obviously havent heard about our souls geting trapped in volcanos and all the other rediculous bullshit there former science fiction novelist leader wrote, oh but i guess youd have to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars too here it.

and anonymous doing protests and shit is pretty gay in my opinion, its 1 thing to go out and fucking peel out on l ron hubbards boulevard, but quite another to go in front of a scientology church and wear a guy fawkes mask while blasting never gonna give you up and screaming memes with your dorky friends

Originally Posted by Levo75

lol, $cientology isn't a religion it's a scam.
Also anonymous doesn't do the protests and the ddos for any religious reasons. They sought to protect the internet from opression of freedom of speech.

Also, 5 minutes of googling will show you what $cientology really is.

Wow dude shut the fuck up. Scientology has just as much of a right to be called a religion as Christianity or any other faith. They all accept cash from their people.

You just don't want to recognize it because it isn't thousands of years old and millions of people don't believe in it.

[Hare_Geist]

Everyone should realize that what is under attack is not so much the beliefs of Scientology, even though they are incredibly ridiculous, but the "church" itself, which is a violent pyramid scheme (pyramid schemes are illegal, for those not in the know) that has ruined many lives. To reiterate, almost all of the well known critics, such as Andreas Heldal-Lund, could care less if people believe in aliens, they just want a corporation that has committed many illegal acts to be shut down by the authorities. This is effectively what I want too.

[Social Junker]

Originally Posted by Smelly Button Ears

calling bomb threats(including olympics), telephone harassment and tons of hate mail.

I'm betting the bomb threats were actually called in by Scientologists trying to make them look bad! Anyway, there's a good article at Radar magazine that I read a few days ago about this.