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Originally Posted by Grimmlok
So, AnonMouse, I'm curious as to what the trigger for all the anti-Co$ stuff flying around was.. a year or 2 ago everybody was shaking in their boots over them, and not without reason. Is there some single defining moment where they revealed themselves as not invincible, or some point where people jsut said "oh enough"?
When did C0$ jump the couch?  |
COS didn't jump the couch, the midget did, and then all hell broke loose for them. That's what Tory Magoo, an ex-scientology big-wig and now critic of Scientology (she's on youtube, Magoo44 I think, watch her, she's great!) has been saying about it. After the whole flap Tommy boy created on Oprah and attack Matt Lauer, her phone rang with media asking about how crazy Tom was and his deal with being in Scientology, and it's been snowballing since.
The publication of Morton's book and the timed release of the leaked vid on Gawker is just the snowball gaining more speed, helped along by the Anon moment, and it's going fast now. What's keeping it going is that they have stopped their big litigations like they did against Time Warner when they published their story in 1991 'Scientology: Cult of Greed'? Why have they stopped sueing?
Blame the net.
Without the internet, the spread of news is a lot slower, research materials are shut in libraries, anyone interested in understanding it had to look it out on their own, and there isn't any massive public forums for diverse opinions other than TV. With the internet being as active as it is, knowledge is at one's very own fingertips along with a platform to get that information out there. If they were to launch a big case now, Anonyomous and any interested media would be all over it. Look at what happened to the injunctions in Clearwater last month, the actual court papers themselves were not only on the St. Petersburg Times webpage in minutes of being published, but it was put on Digg and dugg to the front page in seconds.
The net changes COS's tactics to the point of being more laughable than scary, plus the fact that they're not exactly net savvy people doesn't help.
Everything added together, they aren't what they used to be, which Anon's movement has been proving, so the rush is perhaps all pent up frustration from critics and journalists who've wanted to report on it, but couldn't because of the legal ramifications if they did.
::pants:: That work for an answer?