Great News: Wikipedia bans Cult of $cientology

mr_bad · **Joined:** Wed Dec 28, 2005 7:00 pm **Posts:** 2589

http://www.wired.com/business/2009/05/w ... ientology/

Glad these basterds are getting put in their place.

Apparently, this banning already happened last year, but they just held another vote and banned them again, or something.

Wieber · **Joined:** Tue May 23, 2006 10:57 pm **Posts:** 8403

Pretty good summary.

Quote:

The Church of Scientology, founded by sci-fi writer L. Ron Hubbard in 1953, has had a long and bloody history on the net — dating back to Usenet groups, where critics maintain that the organization is a cult that brainwashes its members and sucks them dry financially.

hartley · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2012 12:27 pm

The article is dated 2009 - old news - and it's an edited ripoff from a more informed article:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/29 ... ientology/

Wikipedia admin attempted to appear 'balanced' by banning editors from both sides, but it was obvious that it was the OSA team in Los Angeles they were ejecting.

I'mglib · **Joined:** Fri Jul 29, 2005 5:17 pm **Posts:** 4972

If you read reddit, the story got revived recently...which is great. People forget, and also there are always new people to inform.

Smurf · **Joined:** Tue Oct 19, 2010 4:10 am **Posts:** 2681

Count on OSA and it's computer geek volunteers to be planning ways to subvert the ban.

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