Scientology and the Internet

As Scientology v. the Internet denote anti-Scientology activist -initiated Scientology lot of action against their opponents. This bear in the anti-Scientology activists Scientology to operate coercive measures with the help of police, lawyers and courts in the United States, Finland, Sweden and the Netherlands.

These measures are accused in various publications of different computer specialist magazines since 1994 Scientology; The aim of these measures was to prevent the spread of "secret " or unwelcome documents that were written by the founder of the Church of Scientology L. Ron Hubbard, especially the OT III documents in which it comes to Xenu.

These procedures include:

• Even with short quotations from Scientology publications is sometimes threatened with lawsuit for copyright infringement. In some cases, such an action was also filed.
• Some sites that use the word Scientology or the 8 -pointed Scientology Cross, was threatened with lawsuits having regard to the alleged misuse of the trade mark ( Trade Mark ) Scientology.
• Use of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ( DMCA) to stop unpopular websites: according to U.S. law, the assertion violated that an internet site United States copyright (copyright ) is sufficient to ensure that the ( American ) providers to delete this page must, in order not to be guilty even of a copyright infringement. Against unauthorized claims of copyright infringement can proceed processes in the United States only by means of ( more expensive). However, using a provider outside the United States, this problem can often be avoided.
• Distributing an Internet filter to the own supporters that prevents the consideration of critical pages that include names of critics and Scientology foreign religious material.
• Flooding the Usenet newsgroup alt.religion.scientology with nonsensical computer-generated contributions to deter readers.
• Publication of numerous, very similar website ( since 2005 blogs) and domains ( " link farms " ) to displace otherwise pages from search engines.
• Publishing defamatory disinformation pages over opponents.

Complaints of Scientology were also the reason that the world's first Nym remailers 1996 after three and a half years, ceased its operation. Internet users had this service ( anon.penet.fi ) used to publish under a pseudonym internal Scientology material in various discussion forums. After Scientology had forced the surrender of three return addresses in a Finnish court, was the operator of anon.penet.fi, Johan Helsingius on the project.