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Church of Scientology Enlisting Followers In Censorship

Posted by Soulskill on from the good-luck-with-that dept.

DrEnter writes "Apparently, the recent very public divorce of Katie Holmes and devout believer Tom Cruise is reflecting negatively on the Church of Scientology. Adding to this are other recent issues causing problems for 'church' leadership. In response, the 'church' has decided to encourage its followers to censor online chatter and comments about the 'church' and the divorce. This Yahoo blog post sums it up nicely. In short, they are encouraging members to complain about people posting negative comments about the 'church' as violating the Code of Conduct' in the posting venue. I can only imagine they are hoping these complaints will just be rubber-stamped and respected without investigation, but I think the campaign deserves a bit more attention."

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  1. Standard Scientology practice by elrous0 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Call all your critics liars (and wife-beaters and child molesters if possible), send private detectives and Sea Org types to follow and harass them, sue them and anyone who supports them, cry religious persecution to the cops and govt officials, rinse, wash, repeat...

    Read all about it, and more.

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    1. Re:Standard Scientology practice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      They are, in short, very much like extremist Muslims, except without the benefit of their religion having been created far enough back that quasi-rational people might give it the benefit of the doubt as being legitimate.

      This.

      Scientology's been caught blackmailing politicians, breaking into government offices to steal records, forging papers used to indict and jail people, and sent in infiltrators incredibly deep in near critics to try to break them, dig up dirt, or even get them to commit suicide. They've been caught breaking into doctors' offices for private medical records, breaking into psychiatrists' offices for anything they can find against their critics or targets.

      This doesn't even deserve to be called a cult. Scientology is nothing but a mafia, a criminal enterprise. This is the Cult of Scientology in action, how they really operate. The BBC did an absolutely great documentary on how they still operate in 2010.

    2. Re:Standard Scientology practice by Mal-2 · · Score: 5, Informative

      While they may harass and sue you, they don't often go with the "Kill the Infidels" if you say something nasty about their Ronnie or Tommy.

      I suppose you've never heard of Auditing Process R2-45.

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  2. Re:First Thetan! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Book 'em, Xenu!

    Please remove the above post as it violate's Slashdot's code of conduct which requires the exact phrase "Frosty Piss" to be used in all first posts.

  3. Re:In fairness to Scientology by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Let me say first that I find Scientology repulsive and a particularly greasy form of pyramid scheme. However, compared to the Judeo-Christian-Islamic trinity, they are responsible for much less evil and far fewer deaths.

    Because they had a late start.

  4. Re:First Thetan! by jcr · · Score: 5, Informative

    Anyone who doesn't hold that criminal enterprise in contempt is just not paying attention.

    -jcr

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