I wanted to share with you all, that Tony O will be on my show this Monday the 16th of July 2012 from 10 to 11 PM EST. We will be taking calls and would love to hear from OCMB folks.

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RP, you're doing great work. I'm sure the cult thought that you would have been worn down or handled by now. Take care of yourself.

RP... you really do need to start a Facebook page and become a member of one of the critc's groups there which has become HUGE. Your audience would be much bigger.

Many exes & critics are spending their time on FB now, then the boards.

For those thank want to like it

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Radio-Pau ... 3237466963

I will never go back to facebook - I used to have a profile there but deleted it a couple of years ago.
Even if they would stick to their own policies, the aggregation of data facebook generates on its users is imho pretty dangerous, especially confronting an organization like OSA.

Shifting the discussion to facebook may look like a good strategy to reach a wider audience,
also to force people who post pro-Scientology to reveal their real identities.
But for anyone who prefers to stay anonymous for one reason or another and wants to keep their friends and families out of their own activities, facebook's waylaying strategy to aggregate the most personal, private and intimate information not only of themselves but also their friends and loved ones is somewhat problematic to say the least - it will naturally keep away a lot of people.

I really don't like to pay for my right to free speech by telling everybody my own real name, telephone number and address, who my friends and relatives are, how they look (photos), how old they are, where they live and work, where they are right now, et cetera.

The facebook platform has so many strategies to subvert the privacy settings of its users and tricky methods to fill in the blanks one leaves on one's own personal profile -
their privacy policy seems to change constantly and require constant vigilance.
The incident that prompted me to leave was a moment when all the things I had set to "visible only to myself" all of a sudden were made visible to all of my friends without notice... how can that just happen overnight?

Facebook then has this app interface that allows developers to access, aggregate and store the data of its users, to use it for whatever they want. What looks like a game or a funny little multiple-choice personality test might in fact be a harvesting scheme for personal data - by whomever!

Then there are intricate ways of social cross-referencing that link your data to what others say about you - image tagging, "how do you know xyz" - recently I read in the news that people even have been asked to check whether one of their facebook friends was using a "fake name" - and what their real name was.
I bet they also cross-correlate the IP addresses of the computers one connects from - I couldn't explain some of the spooky ads they were targeting towards me otherwise.

To make the long ramble shorter: Controlling who gets to know what about you and your personal/private life on facebook is worse than herding flee.
It would be really a big plus if we could encourage the use of a platform that does not have "transparent users" as the product that it sells.

P.S. this all being said... I'm really looking forward to the interview!

RP. Some of the groups don't allow "commercial interests" on the groups, because, then they become open to anyone & everyone that wants to promote a company or a cause, and dilutes the purpose of the group.

Personal FB pages accepted only.

I won't join Facebook as Don Carlo, either; your info security depends on too many employees, and their management wants too much info sharing. I trust Andreas, Frodo (who helps Andreas with the technical issues) and the other mods, to keep identities secret.

That's certainly your perogative, but more & more ex-Scios and Indies are active on Facebook groups and not active as much on OCMB ESMB or WWP anymore.

I guess I'm all done then. I won't do Facebook.

One thing I'm wondering about -- although I'm sure the lines will be busy when it comes to calling into the show - is whether or not hte cult has tried to mess with Tony at all.

^OR, hear what he has to say about Ethics Trouble.

Congratulations, Paul! Great job, Tony!

<3

ps: I liked how Tony described L.A. as... what... the Administrative Mecca of Scientology? Very apt!

And I thought it was cool how he said he didn't mind calling Scientology a church - despite some objections - because THEY call themselves a church, which just emphasizes the mismatch of their behavior with a what most people think of as a church. It's like their shining a huge spotlight on their own hypocrisy.

Sconetale, very well written. I do agree 100% with your conclusions.
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Facebook knows a LOT more about individual(s) then the East German STASI or USSR KGB. The data on Facebook is a lot more reliable than the STASI files. Why ? Because the users volunteer to give out their personal data. They do not want to lie to their friends. In case of STASI (and | or KGB | or their USA counterparts ) need to collect data from public databanks, validate the info and build the interconnections between persons. Their data files are never up-to-date. On Facebook is just the opposite. Relations and interconnections are up-to-date.

FOR YOUR LISTENING ENJOYMENT

http://youtu.be/hTJJjAA818E

Facebook reality? You decide:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aQu_cY7-G4

Facebook satire? You decide:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmIWP_XL-3A

I thought you might enjoy another interview I did with a guy that takes on religions.
http://youtu.be/cl-k7Smtiag