Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology From: dennis.l.erlich@support.com Subject: BACKGROUND: CANCELS ON TH Message-ID: <9509110902.0CPIB00@support.com> Organization: L.A. Valley College Public BBS (818)985-7150 X-Mailer: TBBS/PIMP v3.35 Distribution: world Date: Mon, 11 Sep 95 09:02:47 -0700 Lines: 42 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. +--------------------------------------+ Rev. Dennis L Erlich * * the inFormer * * dennis.l.erlich@support.com + inForm@primenet.com "tar baby"