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From: dennis.l.erlich@support.com
Subject: BACKGROUND: CANCELS ON TH
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davidson@sfsu.edu (Daniel Davidson)

Keith "Justified And Ancient" Cochran (janda@netcom.com) wrote:
>: The cancelpoodle cancelled based solely on content.  Chris Lewis,
>: CancelMoose[tm], and the rest cancel based solely on number of copies.

Daniel:
>Right; the CancelMoose[tm] and others do *not* interfere with speech.
>All people can post whatever they wish to, and post it in many different
>groups, without any action from the CancelMoose[tm]. Its only when the
>post is "spammed" in an abusive way to excessive numbers of groups
>that the CancelMoose is activated.
>
>The Scientology cancelpoodle, however, cancels *solely* on the
>basis of content. This includes canceled posts that contained entirely
>original material -- no use, fair or otherwise, of the words of LRH
>or anyone else. This is overt, blatant content-based censorship,
>and is a crime almost everywhere.
>
>The Scientology canceler has targeted posts whose content was
>*merely critical of Scientology*. These posts were erased from
>thousands of computers around the world, constituting a blatant
>content-based censorship of the authors' ideas and opinions,
>censored because the posts do not conform to what Scientology wishes
>to allow people to say.
>
>This censorship has been defended by Scientology spokespeople
>in the past, and there has never been any indication that Scientology
>disagrees with the behavior of the cancelpoodle.
>
>A perpetrator of these cancels has been tracked down by the
>Internet Wabbit Hunters. Detailed evidence of the cancels,
>the original posts and their author's names are easily available.

    Now the scienos have admitted they are behind the cancels.

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