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Former Scientologist: CoS Told Brin It Wanted Only "Good" Search Results
An anonymous reader writes "Former Scientologist at the highest level Geir Isene reveals that he was brought in to educate top Scientology officials about the Internet, and learned that they had met personally with Google's Sergey Brin (YouTube video), asking him if it were possible for the search giant to filter results so that only positive information about the church would be returned on the word 'Scientology.' You can imagine how that went over. Isene also says that he begged the church's officials to give him a full day to explain the Internet to them before they met with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which had regularly criticized the church for its stands against Internet freedom. Apparently, the church is missing Isene's counsel, because just a few days ago, the EFF put the Church of Scientology into its 'Takedown Hall of Shame.' Last month Geir published his journey 'From Independent Scientologist to Just Me' under the GPL v3 license, recognising how being an open source advocate helped with that."
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Whew! I was wondering why it took Slashdot so long to dredge up SOME way to turn this into "zomg Google must be TEH EVULZ!!1!"! I mean, reports of Google execs taking a stand and not letting some cult take over its search results? That's great news! We can't let THAT stand, now, can we? Gotta hurry up and start making presumptions and chains of thoughts that would make Markov proud in order to crowbar in some way, literally ANY WAY to make Google out to be evil due to this news! Thanks, jythie, for doing your civic duty towards killing reason and rational thought and replacing it with delicious, delicious blind rage and hate!