{"id":27074,"date":"2009-09-10T17:01:53","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T17:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/09\/10\/scientologists-propose-elimina\/"},"modified":"2009-09-10T17:01:53","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T17:01:53","slug":"scientologists-propose-elimina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/10\/scientologists-propose-elimina\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientologists Propose Elimination of Anonymity on the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian scientologists have proposed that anonymity and criticism be eliminated from the intertubes.  According to the scientologists:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since January 2008, the Church of Scientology has been subjected to a continuing campaign of violence and abuse from a hate group calling themselves &#8216;Anonymous&#8217;. This entity has been described as a group of &#8220;cyber terrorists&#8221; as its actions have previously focused on Internet harassment and other crimes. However, in the last 13 months they have also (i.e. as well as their internet based assaults) committed acts of harassment and criminal offences &#8220;in real life&#8221; against the Church, its members and Church property. Anonymous members have made numerous bomb threats, arson threats and committed acts of vandalism against Scientology churches. They have made harassing phone calls, sent vulgar and threatening faxes and e-mails, painted graffiti, posted threats on the Internet and publicly threatened to kill Scientologists engaged in religious services. They have also targeted the children of Scientologists in a local school where they have taunted children whilst wearing masks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And so on.<\/p>\n<p>That is from a document submitted to the Australian Human Rights Commission.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/story\/09\/09\/07\/0520225\/Church-of-Scientology-Proposes-Net-Censorship-In-Australia\"><br \/>\nThe story is here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian scientologists have proposed that anonymity and criticism be eliminated from the intertubes. According to the scientologists:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-72G","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27074"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}