Internet Nerds Attack Scientology

[Captain_Bleach]

Here is the site.
4chan users, the "anonymous group," have protested today outside several Scientology centers, making several headlines in the news and spawning numerous Youtube videos.
Scroll to the part where they have links of news articles and Youtube videos to see for yourself.

[the_taken]

What a strange coincidence. I just read the Wiki article on the very same topic.

[Koumei]

Apparently they once hacked the Church of Scientology, getting into their main office and changing their answering service to the entire opening of "The Fresh Prince of Belair".

Edit: At any rate, they make me proud. First with their assistance in catching a paedophile, now fighting the CoS. Who says they're completely evil?

[Crissa]

Gotta do good things to balance their karma, I suppose.

But one understands their hate-on for Scientology. CoS abuses the two things those guys love: Internet freedom of speech and Psychological assistance.

-Crissa

[JonSetanta]

They avoided the branding of evil this time because almost everyone hates Scientologists.
Also, there's a fairly even sampling of all mentalities within any population, 'anonymous' forum sites included. I mean cmon, some of us here are members (or at least in a partial sense)

That, and groups of concentrated Nerd Evil tend to tear themselves to pieces from ample helpings of mutual distrust and loathing. These coordinated attacks were led by more honorable goals of Truth and Justice, and as such would naturally have better staying power.

[Surgo]

There's really too much "they" in this thread and in people who have mentioned it to me in real life, as if the people referred to form a coherent group that can be stereotyped with any accuracy. It's anonymous -- what one anonymous person does has no relation to what another anonymous person does.

[Koumei]

That's true, and it's why I never pay attention when someone on /tg/ has a plan to make a system or whatever - even one small group such as /tg/ couldn't coordinate itself into tying its own shoelaces, so forget the legion of Anon.

But you can get things which basically piss everyone off, and that can lead to various anonymous people all walking in the same direction as though they were a consistent legion.

[JonSetanta]

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But you can get things which basically piss everyone off, and that can lead to various anonymous people all walking in the same direction as though they were a consistent legion.

Poking an insect hive gets the same effect. They run more on instinct than chemical messages, so every fire ant or hornet will generally react the same: attack.
Anons operate on the lowest common denominator, much like the most base of all competent multicellular life forms.

[Draco_Argentum]

Anon is a bunch of aggressive internet geeks with a flocking algorithm deciding what they do.

Scientology pissed them off big so they did what they do and attacked. Since its a target that other people actually care about for once its getting some real motion.

[cthulhu]

I think it is a mix of great/hilarious.

[Desdan_Mervolam]

Blog of someone who attended one of the big UK rallies [Language]

[JonSetanta]

Regardless, this thread itself is made of win.

[CatharzGodfoot]

[Prak]

1202695883[/unixtime]]Gotta do good things to balance their karma, I suppose.

But one understands their hate-on for Scientology. CoS abuses the two things those guys love: Internet freedom of speech and Psychological assistance.

-Crissa

Could we possibly not call the Church of Scientology the CoS? I'm pretty sure my faith(satanism) had that first...
Eh, just bugs me.

on topic... that's hilarious...

...I have no further input that wouldn't make me sound like a complete moron...

[Crissa]

Cultists of Satan? I didn't know you guys used any acronym of any sort, honestly.

Besides, I'm sure there are many other three-letter-acronyms about that are also CoS. Cos-play, my spouse points out.

-Crissa

[Prak]

Church of Satan
, actually...

[tzor]

That's the problem with trademarks, you have to actively defend them or you loose them.

[JonSetanta]

Yea, Satan venerators are not cultists any more than Christians.
Just outnumbered.

Then again, as a pagan it all seems like Skub/Anti-Skub to me.

[Prak]

1202835306[/unixtime]]Then again, as a pagan it all seems like Skub/Anti-Skub to me.

As an intelligent person, all of it seems skub/anti-skub to me...

[Crissa]

As an atheist, all of it seems pretty fairy dressup, to me.

-Crissa

[Captain_Bleach]

As a person who does not care about Omniscient Entities that I have never met, I just don't care unless it affects me or sounds like an interesting story.
But I'm not going to devote my life to a deity who all I know about is from fellow humans.