From the category archives:

Scientology

Scientology, mob rule and “Gov 2.0″

September 14, 2009

I wasn’t following it at the time so this may not be news to anyone, but apparently the Obama administration’s Citizen’s Briefing Book – a collection of policy ideas submitted electronically by American citizens in the lead-up to the Inauguration – showed some interesting results. 44,000 proposals were floated by members of the public, and [...]

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Bringing down NRM’s for LULZ

June 28, 2009

An interesting paper was presented at the recent CESNUR conference in Salt Lake City on anti-Scientology group Anonymous, and their activities on 4chan. It’s not the most polished paper I’ve ever read and it provides a glossary that explains a number of terms not referenced in the paper, but it’s definitely worth reading. I particularly [...]

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Wikipedia is a battlefield

June 1, 2009

Not “love”, as certain pundits would have you believe. You heard it here first. So Wikipedia has banned a slew of IP’s orginating from the Church of Scientology, as well as bunch of Wikipedia editors who got involved. I wonder if they had to turn the lights on and off to break it up, and [...]

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