TV Maven: YouTube Yanks "Anonymous" Video
By Elaine Liner Elaine Liner Archives
Update: YouTube has pulled the video by “Anonymous” that launched the Feb. 10 global protests against the church.
Ex-church member Tory Christman, known on the Internet by her nickname “Magoo,” explains here what she thinks the church is up to and gives some insight into how the Church of Scientology regards criticism.
Interesting. One of the L. Ron Hubbard’s key “axioms” of church doctrine is “Man has an inalienable right to free speech.”
Stay tuned. This one is getting more interesting by the day.
Later update: The video is back up in more than 300 cloned versions listed under "Message to Scientology." Once again, the Internet has proved too large and amorphous for Scientology to control. These "Anons" are a very insistent group.
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2/15/08 PM YouTube Yanks "Anonymous" Video
2/14/08 PM YouTube Scientology Freeze: Coincidence or Censorship?
2/14/08 AM Internet's "Anonymous" Puts Scientology and Tom Cruise on Notice
For more on this subject, check out Ed Martin's review of the South Park episode Trapped in the Closet and his column about the bizarre public behavior of Tom Cruise. Also read TVMaven's take on the infamous Tom Cruise Scientology video.
Elaine Liner
Elaine Liner currently writes arts and media criticism for the Dallas Observer and other publications. A graduate of Trinity University, with a master's from SMU, Liner teaches writing and criticism on the college level. For a decade she wrote for daily news…
