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Wikileaks: Going down for the last time?

dan tynan on Feb 03 2010 | Filed under: Cringley, Da Web, Infoworld, Julius Baer + Wikileaks, Privacy, censorship, politics

We have interrupted our nonstop coverage of Apple iPad mania to bring you this important word about the freedom of information. And, more specifically, Wikileaks.org.
I’ve written about Wikileaks several times over the last few years, in part because it’s a classic example of why the Internet is such an extraordinary telecommunications tool.
Wikileaks is usually [...]

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Wikipedia to Scientologists: Edit this, suckers

dan tynan on Jun 01 2009 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Cringley, Infoworld, Web 2.0

The world’s most popular encyclopedia just banned an entire church from editing it. But why stop there?

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Is Scientology Attacking YouTube?

dan tynan on Sep 09 2008 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Copyrights and wrongs, Crazyass cults, Video, Web 2.0, youtube

From Jon Newton at P2Pnet comes this report: A group apparently acting as a proxy for the Church (ahem) of Scientology has issued 4000 takedown notices to YouTube for any videos relating to CoS — including things like city commission meetings for the city of Clearwater, Florida (where CoS has its HQ).
To wit:
The Cult of [...]

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Anonymous returns, Scientology responds

dan tynan on Aug 06 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld

(This post originally appeared on Infoworld’s Notes From the Field blog.)
It seems Anonymous has resurfaced and hired a publicist. Two days ago I received an email alerting me to two new YouTube videos from the anti-Scientology crusader(s). I’d been wondering what had happened to it/them, since things had been so quiet lately on that front. [...]

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