{"id":197568,"date":"2008-01-24T23:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T04:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/24\/scientology-vs-the-internet-all-your-bases-are-belong-to-us\/"},"modified":"2008-01-24T23:25:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T04:25:00","slug":"scientology-vs-the-internet-all-your-bases-are-belong-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/24\/scientology-vs-the-internet-all-your-bases-are-belong-to-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientology Vs. The Internet: All Your Bases Are Belong To Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it appears that a group of anonymous internet vigilantes, calling themselves &#8220;Anonymous&#8221; (not a whole bunch of imagination there), have decided, since the attempted suppression of Tom Cruise&#8217;s &#8220;crazy as a bed bug&#8221; Scientology tape, have decided to go after the organization, see <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/347367\/why-kids-on-the-internet-are-scientologys-most-powerful-enemy\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.usatoday.com\/techspace\/2008\/01\/threatening-the.html\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/27bstroke6\/2008\/01\/anonymous-attac.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that the people involved call this &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.encyclopediadramatica.com\/PROJECT_CHANOLOGY\">Chanology<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>While I understand how these folks feel, someone, and I don&#8217;t mean a member of Scientology, is going to end up <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">dead<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>I used to follow Alt.Religion.Scientolgy on Usenet, and I will simply note that this organization browbeat the <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Internal Revenue Service<\/span> into submission.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the &#8220;official&#8221; &#8220;Anonymous&#8221; video.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img179.imageshack.us\/img179\/6321\/328allyourbase1rc1.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>OK, it wasn&#8217;t their official video, that is here, at least until Youtube is forced to kill it:<br \/><object width=\"425\" height=\"373\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JCbKv9yiLiQ&#038;rel=1&#038;border=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JCbKv9yiLiQ&#038;rel=1&#038;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"373\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it appears that a group of anonymous internet vigilantes, calling themselves &#8220;Anonymous&#8221; (not a whole bunch of imagination there), have decided, since the attempted suppression of Tom Cruise&#8217;s &#8220;crazy as a bed bug&#8221; Scientology tape, have decided to go after the organization, see here, here, and here. It appears that the people involved call &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,997,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-internet","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}