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Scientology and Censorship

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From: Herbert H. Schreib
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 21:54
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Wow!  I just read the most recent EFF newsletter regarding the efforts of 
The Church of Scientology to censor (control) the content of discussion 
on the internet.  It's actually a quite disconcerting trend and something 
which we must be vigilant in stopping.  It seems that at least part of the
problem lies in the fact that a good percentage of the public (including
judges) still do not fully understand the net in general and newsgroups
in particular.   Hopefully as this changes with time, attitudes regarding
censorship will also follow.

After reading the EFF article, I also looked at other information regarding
scientology in alt.religion.scientology and on the web.  For more info
on how the scientologists tried to manipulate the legal system to censor
the internet and other tactics, check out:

http://falcon.cc.ukans.edu/~sloth/sci/sci_index.html


							-herb

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* Herbert H. Schreib		 \\\	"Of everything ask, what is its    *
* The University of Texas	  \\\	   nature, what does it mean"	   *
* schreib@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu     \\\  	   -Hannibal Lecter	   *	
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