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04/12/08 Operation Reconnect: Global Protest against the Cult of Scientology

UPDATE (05/09/08): Watch Scientology lie on CNN:

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Among many of the bizarre and inhuman practices inside the cult of Scientology, the policy of Disconnection is probably the most devastating for families and friends of Scientologists:

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April 11th, 2008 Posted by em8chel << bruising my religion, party like it's 1984 >> Discuss

10 Things You Might Not Know About the Peace Symbol

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Our favorite peace symbol turns 50 today. Happy birthday to ☮!

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April 4th, 2008 Posted by em8chel << candy mountain >> Discuss

Absurd Patent Claim Leads to Worldwide Boycott on Trend Micro

Boycott Trend Micro

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March 28th, 2008 Posted by em8chel << a gentle introduction to Linux for non-geeks, geek pride >> Discuss

dotSUB: a Polyglot YouTube Alternative

YouTube has been everyone’s favorite soap box for quite some time now. For anyone who lives in a country where TV programs are just painful to watch, YouTube is such a lifesaver. Not only is it a great source of information and misinformation, it’s also a practical platform for citizen journalism. It has been so effective in its instant gratification, and so convincing in its democracy, that we almost forget that our worshiped soap box is still controlled by a corporation that has its own interest to look out for. Not every video is treated equal. Sure, it can’t prevent you from getting on the soap box, but it can give you a defect megaphone; it can’t tell the pedestrians to go away, but it can employ warm bodies to pose as bystanders to block you from view.

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March 21st, 2008 Posted by em8chel << a site for sore eyes, geek pride >> Discuss

Evidence (lots of screenshots) that Google is Suppressing Contents Exposing Scientology

UPDATE (05/23/08)
xenutv mark bunker
I tried to leave a comment on xenutv2 but kept getting an error message.

UPDATE (05/22/08)
Last week I asked Google and YouTube press support (and another Google employee) whether their Scientology channel was paid. The channel was listed in the “Sponsors” section of the site, for one thing, and Scientology has been seen spending many advertising dollars with Google in AdSense campaigns. One reason why I asked was that the page included a link to Scientology.org without “nofollow” – which would make it a paid link, which would be against Google’s own webmaster guidelines…
UPDATE (05/21/08)
It seems that YouTube has one set of rules for The Church of Scientology and another set for Scientology’s critics…
UPDATE (03/28/08)
google video censoring anti-scientology contents
This screenshot was taken yesterday. A search on video.google.com for “scientology” came up with nothing. Hit the search button, the same thing. Hit the search button, the same thing again. The search finally found the videos I was looking for the 4th time I hit the search button.

UPDATE (03/24/08): watch how all videos critical of Scientology are frozen (with one mysterious exception of the second segment of “The S Files”, which YouTube held hostage for some 29 hours after the upload before releasing it online), while all non-Scientology related videos play just fine.

UPDATE (03/16/08): Scientology has relaunched its websites and uploaded its own self-produced videos of propaganda and deception. Interesting coincidence?

anonymous war against scientology censored by youtube
screenshot 1:(click on the pictures to see them in original size):This is just a one time thing that happened last month. Technical glitch on YouTube? I had no problems searching other key words though.

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March 14th, 2008 Posted by em8chel << bruising my religion, party like it's 1984 >> Discuss

Six Organs of Brilliance: The Maximum Black Festival in Berlin

maximum black festival berlin final fantasy

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March 7th, 2008 Posted by em8chel << a Taiwanese in Berlin, soundtrack of our Lives >> Discuss

Comcast Launches Denial-of-Citizen Attack on Democracy

Remember those Net Neutrality videos you watched on CC a while ago? Turns out some corporation not only wants to control the Internet traffic, they want to block public forums as well. Last year Comcast, one of the biggest cable companies and Internet Service Providers in the United States, was caught injecting forged TCP/RST packets into users’ traffic to interfere with their BitTorrent uploads and downloads. FCC, or the Federal Communications Commission, therefore set up a public hearing to take place on February 25th at the Harvard Law School on a first-come, first-served basis. Based on discussions on this public forum as well as written comments from private citizens, the regulators may establish on what ISPs may and may not do.

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February 29th, 2008 Posted by em8chel << geek pride, party like it's 1984 >> Discuss