From: michael pattinson (karethian@aol.com) Subject: Reposted classics 62: "NET NANNY" Charlotte Kates on Scientology's censorship of its members. Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology View: Complete Thread (4 articles) | Original Format Date: 2001-08-03 22:36:18 PST From: CLKates (clkates@aol.com) Subject: REPOST: What CSI doesn't want Scns to See Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Date: 1998/07/02 'NET NANNY" The $cientology net nanny which Scientologists agree to use is hidden on the CD they receive in their packet of information about the Scientologist On-Line program. The CD contains three choices--the first, creating your spam page using the program CSI gives on the CD, second, creating online "FSM selection slips" to email to your selectees, who will take them to the Org they go to, landing the web-page-creator 15% of his purchases there, and third, installing Netscape Communicator and setting up your web page. This third choice is, as specifically mentioned in the packet, not to be chosen until after your page has received "Issue Authority" from CSI (for the use of such trademarks as "the collective membership mark SCIENTOLOGIST"). The third button installs the net nanny, hidden in the Netscape InstallShield. It is an invisible program in My Computer or Windows Explorer and cannot be viewed by pressing control+alt+delete. It is insidious, showing up on every 32-bit Internet program on a computer, in my case, Netscape and mIRC. When entering mIRC channel #scientology, those on-channel tested the nanny. We found that certain nicks were invisible (such as "alerma" and "zinjifar") and that whatever they wrote was visible in the mIRC status bar and not on-channel. Everyone else, filter-free, clearly saw their writing in the channel screen. Certain words, when typed by myself or others, would cause me to be immediately kicked from IRC, including: Xenu, xenu.net, Wollersheim, Erlich, Grady Ward, Keith Henson, freezone and several others. Many words were invisible to me when others typed them, and invisible to others when I typed them, a long, long list including most ars'ers names, and also, ARS, A.R.S., and alt.religion.scientology, and other words such as: the unbelievable deletion of the word "picket", clambake, Hemet, Gilman Hot Springs, Mark Ingber, Helena Kobrin, Kendrick Moxon, really nearly every critic and/or ex-member's name, from Roland Rashleigh-Berry to Graham Berry, and anti-cult people like Steven Hassan and Rick Ross. It was nearly impossible to converse on IRC with the filter. Luckily, using 16-bit mIRC was a quick and easy solution. On the Web, sites such as xenu.net, entheta.net, lermanet.com, xs4all and csj.org (the AFF site) were completely blocked, whole domain names which also hosted critics' sites were blocked, dejanews.com was blocked. When reaching an unblocked search engines, all disliked domains would be listed as such: "home.inreach.com", became " . . " Just dots with no words..Other words, contained in an unblocked or new page, would cause a page to stop loading. For example, about 1/4 of a web page would load, and the filter would then hit the word, for example, Hemet, and stop loading. One of the more interesting effects was its word chopping. For example "NOTs" is a blocked word. This meant also that "not sure" became "ure", and that "not surprised" became "urprised." Any configuration of "not" and "s" was deleted. Also, in honor of ARSer "Anima", the word "animal" became, simply, "l". Yeah, right. "Think for yourself." I hope to post a far more complete list of "bad words" later...To any Scientologists reading, of course, 16-bit programs or Win98 kill it. Charlotte Kates Curt West - Webmaster -- Tory/Magoo~Dancing in the moonlight~ In Scientology for 30 years, out happily for 5 years! For thinking and speaking my mind, I am: Declared SP and Expelled from C of S (Woo hoo!) (SP 6 ^ with Cumulative Cluster) Free at LAST! For more information about this, please see: http://www.xenu.net http://www.xenutv.com http://www.torymagoo.org http://www.lermanet.com/cos/toryonosa.htm http://www.altreligionscientology.org magoo44@charter.net "Those that give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin Burbank, CA (818) 841-3632 ||||| From: "Magoo" Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology References: <42eb08c0$1@news2.lightlink.com> Subject: Re: Scientology and Censorship, by Charlotte Kates (re-Post) Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 22:07:11 -0700 Lines: 145 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.214.138.168 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.214.138.168 Message-ID: <42eb0b01@news2.lightlink.com> X-Trace: 30 Jul 2005 01:07:13 -0400, 66.214.138.168 X-Original-Trace: 30 Jul 2005 01:07:13 -0400, 66.214.138.168 Organization: Lightlink Internet Path: news2.lightlink.com Xref: news2.lightlink.com alt.religion.scientology:1834591 "Magoo" wrote in message news:42eb08c0$1@news2.lightlink.com... > Reposted Classics 61 - 70 > > #62 > > Home > > > #61 | #62 | #63 | #64 | #65 | #66 | #67 | #68 | #69 | #70 > > "NET NANNY" Charlotte Kates on Scientology's censorship of its > members. > > > > From: michael pattinson (karethian@aol.com) > Subject: Reposted classics 62: "NET NANNY" Charlotte Kates on > Scientology's censorship of its members. > Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology > View: Complete Thread (4 articles) | Original Format > Date: 2001-08-03 22:36:18 PST > > > From: CLKates (clkates@aol.com) > Subject: REPOST: What CSI doesn't want Scns to See > Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology > Date: 1998/07/02 > > > 'NET NANNY" > > > The $cientology net nanny which Scientologists agree to use is > hidden on the CD they receive in their packet of information about the > Scientologist On-Line program. The CD contains three choices--the first, > creating your spam page using the program CSI gives on the CD, second, > creating online "FSM selection slips" to email to your selectees, who will > take them to the Org they go to, landing the web-page-creator 15% of his > purchases there, and third, installing Netscape Communicator and setting > up your web page. This third choice is, as specifically mentioned in the > packet, not to be chosen until after your page has received "Issue > Authority" from CSI (for the use of such trademarks as "the collective > membership mark SCIENTOLOGIST"). > > The third button installs the net nanny, hidden in the Netscape > InstallShield. It is an invisible program in My Computer or Windows > Explorer and cannot be viewed by pressing control+alt+delete. It is > insidious, showing up on every 32-bit Internet program on a computer, in > my case, Netscape and mIRC. When entering mIRC channel #scientology, those > on-channel tested the nanny. We found that certain nicks were invisible > (such as "alerma" and "zinjifar") and that whatever they wrote was visible > in the mIRC status bar and not on-channel. Everyone else, filter-free, > clearly saw their writing in the channel screen. Certain words, when typed > by myself or others, would cause me to be immediately kicked from IRC, > including: Xenu, xenu.net, Wollersheim, Erlich, Grady Ward, Keith Henson, > freezone and several others. Many words were invisible to me when others > typed them, and invisible to others when I typed them, a long, long list > including most ars'ers names, and also, ARS, A.R.S., and > alt.religion.scientology, and other words such as: the unbelievable > deletion of the word "picket", clambake, Hemet, Gilman Hot Springs, Mark > Ingber, Helena Kobrin, Kendrick Moxon, really nearly every critic and/or > ex-member's name, from Roland Rashleigh-Berry to Graham Berry, and > anti-cult people like Steven Hassan and Rick Ross. It was nearly > impossible to converse on IRC with the filter. Luckily, using 16-bit mIRC > was a quick and easy solution. > > On the Web, sites such as xenu.net, entheta.net, lermanet.com, > xs4all and csj.org (the AFF site) were completely blocked, whole domain > names which also hosted critics' sites were blocked, dejanews.com was > blocked. When reaching an unblocked search engines, all disliked domains > would be listed as such: "home.inreach.com", became " . . " Just dots with > no words..Other words, contained in an unblocked or new page, would cause > a page to stop loading. For example, about 1/4 of a web page would load, > and the filter would then hit the word, for example, Hemet, and stop > loading. > > One of the more interesting effects was its word chopping. For > example "NOTs" is a blocked word. This meant also that "not sure" became > "ure", and that "not surprised" became "urprised." Any configuration of > "not" and "s" was deleted. Also, in honor of ARSer "Anima", the word > "animal" became, simply, "l". > > Yeah, right. "Think for yourself." I hope to post a far more > complete list of "bad words" later...To any Scientologists reading, of > course, 16-bit programs or Win98 kill it. > > > Charlotte Kates 2005, July Follow up: I can attest that this is true. I went to the event in 1999 where David Miscavige said, "The World is going Internet, and we need to get there. So, tonight we have computers, we will help you create your own Web sites, you can tell your story, and the world will be able to read them". It sounded good....and few of us had any idea what he was talking about. We all sat down at computers, wrote up our stories of how Scientology had saved our lives, they pitched on some "Hyper-links" (Which were all Scio-Front groups, of course)....and handed us a disc. I asked, "what's this?" I was told: "You have a terrific story, Tory. The world will read it, and now with this, they can write to you". I believed them, why wouldn't I? This was my church! Ok, so about a year later my friend and auditor (counselor) asked me to help him do some research on the Internet, and since I was an OT, he trusted me to LOOK. His name is Bill Yaude and although he was my auditor, he was also sort of a double agent, working for the Office of Special Affairs, trying to stop free speech on the Internet, which it took some time for me to realize that was what he was doing. I said, Ok. He arrived and said, "I just have to take this one thing off your computer". Since I'd just bought it recently I was quite shocked at this. "You have to take off What?" He explained the Net Nanny, of course explaining how it would help me keep all the evil people out of my life, that just cause harm and upsets anyways. Again, it took awhile for me to "Get it". I finally did, in July of 2000 (5 years ago), and soon after left Scientology forever: Thank Goodness! Tory Christman Burbank, CA (818) 841- 3632 magoo44@charter.net > > > > > > > > > > >