Gno Schitt

As far as I've heard, it's a online terrorist organization. I'm open to contestion on that.

It's a group of people who are protesting the Cult of Scientology. The have organized legal protests in person against the Church, as part of the attempt to make themselves a more respected group, to try to get the governmetn to investigate Scientology closer. Originally they operated as Terrorists attacking the Church of Scientology with DDoS attacks, and other general disruptive behaviour (Black Faxes to burn ink, continual prank calls). They have been getting a lot of hype online.

I'm not a fan of them, as I believe in the freedom of religion, and I haven't done any work to see if they have solid evidence on their claims. To me, until their religion or cult starts hurting my way of life, or overly forcing their beliefs on me, people can worship however or to whatever they want. I also largely disagree with the methods the group was originally implementing, thus that dropped their credibility in my eyes.

I jsut think there are much better and more important causes that these anonymous people should work on. Try to get your country out of depression (sorry, "economic downturn") or all the freedoms your government is taking away. I guess I'm just weird for caring more about the government's stance on Net Neutrality than some Religious Organization pressuring YouTube to remove a video. Especially since the video removed was the Church of Scientologies Copyrighted work.

For more information, try the wikipedia entries for "Church of Scientology", and "Project Chanology".

Scientology kills people. It is a murderous cult.

What makes them so dangerous is that they are currently recognized as a legitimate religion, and as such, carry certain rights and entitlements that they should *NOT* be allowed.

Also - they are actively involved in efforts to put church members in very high places so as to bring about elements of social change that benefit them solely.

Look into it.

They are anon?mous, expect them.

There has been some discussion on this whole situation on CBC's Searchengine. I heard the first broadcast but I haven't heard the rest yet. Here's the link:

http://www.cbc.ca/searchengine/

I think that their change in tactics from 'hacking' the Scientology websites and pestering the offices with black-page faxes and prank phone calls was altered after the release of this video was posted by a non-Anonymous man who has been fighting the CoS for 10 years.

A lot of the controversy surrounding Scientology is related to A) their tax exceptions as a Church and the fact that commissions are paid to recruiting members on the charitable donations given by the recruitees; B) Illegal goings on such as Operation Snow White and Operation Freakout; and the unfortunate and avoidable death of Lisa McPherson and the subsequent fallout (if you read the bit about the coroner's report, you can only imagine what Joan Wood went through).

I wouldn't go so far as to classify Anonymous as terrorists, if they had continued down the path of using illegal means to make a point - then yes, I would have agreed. But to organize peaceful protests that went off without a hitch (save for one guy in Toronto showing up w/ a capgun) is a huge step in the right direction.

I say cudos to them for trying; so long as they keep it legal.

I jsut think there are much better and more important causes that these anonymous people should work on.

In a world of "casual, inventive, tireless malice" you have to pick your own battles.