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arnaldo p. "arnie" lerma • bare-faced messiah: the true story of l. ron hubbard (book) • cnet • church of scientology international (csi) • copyright, trademark, patent • david miscavige • dennis erlich • digital millennium copyright act (dmca) • earle c. cooley • electronic frontier foundation (eff) • factnet • helena k. kobrin • judge leonie m. brinkema • l. ron hubbard's credentials • lawrence "larry" wollersheim • lawsuit • netcom on-line communication services, inc. • new era publications international, aps (nepi) • religious technology center (rtc) • silencing criticism, censorship • washington post • xenu (operating thetan level 3, ot 3, wall of fire) • alt.religion.scientology • alt.scientology.war • xenu.net (aka operation clambake)
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Oct 24, 2010
Conversations from the Pale Blue Dot // 075 Russell Miller -- L. Ron Hubbard was a fraud — Common Sense Atheism
Jul 9, 2010
Declaration of Mark "Marty" Rathbun
Nov 22, 2009
Celebrities lead charge against Scientology — The Observer (London, UK)
Type: Press
Author(s): Peter Beaumont, Toni O'Loughlin
Source: The Observer (London, UK)
Hollywood figures quit 'rip-off' church as Australian prime minister threatens parliamentary inquiry into its activities The security at the red-brick and glass-walled horseshoe of the John Joseph Moakley courthouse on Boston's waterfront was unusually tight. Anybody who was not a member of the city's bar association was swept with a search wand. Photo IDs were checked. Mobile phones were taken from guests, who included the Hollywood star Tom Cruise. The occasion was a memorial service for Scientology's top legal adviser for ...
Oct 26, 2009
My Billion Year Contract / Memoir of a former Scientologist (book) - Chapter 14 Espionage, once again — CNM Publishing
Sep 21, 2009
Scientology: The web's first copyright-wielding nemesis — Wired
Type: Press
Author(s): Julian Dibbell
Source: Wired
The Church of Scientology was founded in the early 1950s by pulp science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, and it's been run by his successor, David Miscavige, since 1987. But for the past year or so the public face of Scientology has been a man named Tommy Davis. Son of Hollywood actress (and longtime Scientologist) Anne Archer, Davis has a stylish mop coif and boyish (not to say Tom Cruise-ish) good looks that have been put before the media's cameras every time ...
Sep 21, 2009
The Assclown Offensive: How to enrage the Church of Scientology — Wired
Mar 27, 2009
Infinite Complacency - 12 Scientology v the Internet
Jun 1, 2008
Scientology Scandals — The Skeptic (Australia)
Apr 24, 2008
Anti-Scientology crusader vaporized from YouTube — The Register (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s): Cade Metz
Source: The Register (UK)
YouTube has vaporized a popular user account dedicated to criticizing The Church of Scientology. Last Thursday, the world's most popular video sharer removed the 10,000-subscriber-strong "Xenutv1" channel run by Mark Bunker, a television journalist/well-known Scientology naysayer. Earlier in the week, Bunker posted a teaser for his three-hour interview with Jason Beghe - a film and television actor who recently defected from the world of Scientology - and the account was yanked just before Bunker was due to broadcast the interview in ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Feb 8, 2008
New foe emerges against Scientology — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Feb 8, 2008
The Passion of "Anonymous" — Newsweek
Feb 7, 2008
Scientology's Cruise Control — Forbes
Type: Press
Author(s): Kai Falkenberg
Source: Forbes
Commentary Scientology's Cruise Control Kai Falkenberg 02.07.08, 10:30 AM ET Hollywood celebs like Tom Cruise typically want as many folks as possible watching them onscreen. Not so with a recently leaked video of Cruise promoting his Scientology religion. The nine-minute clip features a wide-eyed Cruise trumpeting his Scientology beliefs with what many have described as messianic zeal. Soon after the video surfaced on the Web, the Church of Scientology International demanded it be removed–claiming the posting of the stolen video violated ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Feb 5, 2008
Scientology feud with its critics takes to Internet — Los Angeles Times (California)
Feb 4, 2008
Hackers wage web war on Scientologists — The Telegraph (UK)
Jan 31, 2008
Fair Game: An online onslaught against Scientology — Economist
More: economist.com
Type: Press
Source: Economist
Watch out, there's an alien about An online onslaught against Scientology A VICIOUS cult run by cynical fraudsters, or a sincerely held religious belief persecuted by zealots? That is the long-standing row about Scientology, founded by the late science-fiction writer, L. Ron Hubbard. In some countries, such as Germany, the group is watched by the security services. In others, such as America and Australia, it has won charitable status as a religion. Until now the fight could mostly be seen as ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jan 25, 2008
Xenu strikes again
Jan 16, 2008
Tom Cruise: "Why ask permission? We are the authorities." — Defamer
Jul 7, 2007
Battle with Scientology sparks Schwarzenegger pardon request — San Jose Mercury News
Type: Press
Source: San Jose Mercury News
SACRAMENTO — A former Silicon Valley computer consultant whose decade-long fight with the Church of Scientology led to his ruin is asking Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to free him from a Riverside County jail. Keith Henson's crusade against the church brought him a misdemeanor conviction for interfering with the rights of others to practice their religion. The 64-year-old Californian is now two months into a six-month jail sentence for the crime. It is the latest development in a war that forced Henson ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
May 25, 2007
net.wars: bent copyright — newswireless.net
Type: Press
Author(s): Wendy M. Grossman
Source: newswireless.net
For a time in the late 1980s and early 1990s you hadn't arrived as a skeptic until you'd been sued by Uri Geller. The person who bore the brunt of most of the lawsuits was, of course, James Randi, the escape artist, stage magician, and paranormal investigator. I never got beyond threats - yet. On the first occasion, it was when I wrote a news story for New Scientist about the Randi/Geller law suits. I seem to recall a lawyer's letter, ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Dec 16, 2005
Final Victory! XS4ALL and Spaink win Scientology battle — XS4ALL
Type: Press release
Source: XS4ALL
The legal battle that the Church of Scientology has conducted against XS4ALL and Karin Spaink reached its grand finale today. The Dutch Supreme court dismissed Scientology's claims, which means that a decade of legal skirmishes has finally come to an end. The Supreme Court decided that the previous ruling, which was in favour of XS4ALL and Spaink, still holds. Scientology lost again. Freedom of speech prevailed over the alleged copyright of the Scientology Church, and Spaink can quote from Scientology's higher ...
Sep 2, 2005
L. Ron Hubbard, GW & Scientology — GW Hatchet
Type: Press
Author(s): Maura Judkis
Source: GW Hatchet
When prospective students tour GW, one of the things they learn is how easy it is to start an organization. Tour guides chirp about the school's most famous alumni - Colin Powell and Jackie O, of course, and if the tour guide is feeling daring, he might throw Watergate's "Deep Throat" into the mix. But one name that prospective students do not hear is that of L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of the Church of Scientology. Perhaps it's because students are ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Mar 21, 2005
Dutch AG upholds decision in Scientology case / Free speech over copyright — The Register (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s): Jan Libbenga
Source: The Register (UK)
The Dutch Attorney-General has endorsed a verdict seen as backing free speech over copyright in the controversial case between the Church of Scientology and writer Karin Spaink, Dutch ISP Xs4all reports. The Dutch Supreme Court, which will rule on this case on 8 July, had asked the Attorney-General for advice. The Church of Scientology sued Karin Spaink and her internet service provider Xs4all Internet BV after Spaink posted Scientology documents on her website. In the early 1990s, former Scientologist Steven Fishman, ...
Sep 12, 2003
The mills of Xenu grind exceeding slow — The Inquirer
Type: Press
Author(s): Wendy M. Grossman
Source: The Inquirer
IT WAS WITH some astonishment that I read this week that a Dutch court ruled on September 4 that writer Karin Spaink could keep the Scientology materials on her Web site. The original case, in which this is the third ruling, began in the Pleistocene era in Internet terms — nine years ago. I had no idea it was still doing the Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce thing. I spent much of 1994 — when the Web was Usenet, the king was CompuServe, ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Sep 9, 2003
Hyperlinks remain legal after Scientology defeat — CNET
Type: Press
Author(s): Matt Hines
Source: CNET
The Church of Scientology has lost a courtroom battle to compel a Dutch writer and her Internet service provider to remove postings from a Web site, in a ruling that keeps hyperlinks to copyrighted material legal. On Friday, the Dutch Court of Appeal in The Hague, Netherlands, denied the Scientologists' latest appeal in an online copyright dispute that dates back to 1995. The Church of Scientology has repeatedly pursued legal action in the Netherlands against the writer, Karin Spaink, and her ...
Sep 8, 2003
Scientologists loses copyright case // Secret scriptures can stay online — The Register (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s): Jan Libbenga
Source: The Register (UK)
The Court of Appeal in The Hague last week rejected all of the Church of Scientology's claims its action against the Dutch ISP Xs4all, writer Karin Spaink and ten other internet providers for publishing copyrighted material on the web. As a result, Spaink's website which Scientologists had sought to remove, is entirely legal. The court also overturned two lower court rulings, one of which stated that linking to material that infringed a copyright was itself actionable. The victory for Xs4all represents ...
Sep 8, 2003
Scientology loss keeps hyperlinks legal — CNET
Type: Press
Author(s): Matt Hines
Source: CNET
The Church of Scientology has lost a courtroom battle to compel a Dutch writer and her Internet service provider to remove postings from a Web site, in a ruling that keeps hyperlinks to copyrighted material legal. On Friday, the Dutch Court of Appeal in The Hague, Netherlands, denied the Scientologists' latest appeal in an online copyright dispute that dates back to 1995. The Church of Scientology has repeatedly pursued legal action in the Netherlands against the writer, Karin Spaink, and her ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Feb 12, 2003
ABLE INT ED 437 / SOCIAL BETTERMENT GROUP LICENSE AND STAFF QUALIFICATIONS
Oct 24, 2002
Free speech feels Net copyright chill — CNET
Type: Press
Author(s): Lisa M. Bowman
Source: CNET
Rick Sanchez thought the bright folks at Mensa International would agree that his Pets or Food Web site was a joke. He was sure that the site's offers of "freshly clubbed" frozen baby seal meat and "a dozen Doberman flank steaks for a Super Bowl party" were a dead giveaway. If not, then surely the site's frisky description of fictional CEO Sydney Zwibel–a "former animal disposal technician," Mensa member and alternate member of the 1984 Olympic Fencing Team–smacked of parody. So ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Sep 24, 2002
Net archive silences Scientology critic — CNET
Type: Press
Author(s): Lisa M. Bowman
Source: CNET
Buckling under pressure from the Church of Scientology, the Internet Archive has removed a church critic's Web site from its system. The Internet Archive, a site that preserves snapshots of old Web pages and bills itself as "a library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form," no longer contains links to archival pages of Xenu.net. Instead, surfers are pointed to a page telling them the site was taken down "per the request of the site owner." However, Xenu.net ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
May 16, 2002
Follow that story // Eighty-six million dimes — Denver Westword News
Type: Press
Author(s): Alan Prendergast
Source: Denver Westword News
A 22-year legal battle came to an abrupt end last week when the Church of Scientology paid $8.67 million to one of its harshest critics: a former member who claimed the church had harassed him for years and driven him "to the brink of insanity." The settlement between the church's California organization and former Boulder resident Lawrence Wollersheim is notable not only for its size, but for its public nature. In the past, litigation involving the controversial "new religion"—founded by science-fiction ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
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