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Originally Posted by GaPeach
When Tom took on South Park a group called Anonymous took on scientology, they have organized rallies against them and hacked into their main frame computers. Law suits abound. No one of course knows who these youthful hackers are - I'm cheering for the hackers  |
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As one of those mysterious Anonymous folks, allow me to correct you on some things. It was the removal of the infamous Tom Cruise interview that was the straw that broke the camel's back. As far as the hacking goes, no one broke into their mainframes or anything as bigtime as that. It was a Distributed Denial of Service attack that brought their sites down. Basically, some of the earlier planning websites put up a program anyone could download and use. All you had to do was find a really big image file on the Scientology website, plug the link into this program, and hit run. The program would then either refresh or download (can't remember which) the program over and over again. With a whole bunch of people doing that at once, it put enough strain on their servers to bring the site down. And before anyone asks, no, I didn't participate, not out of any moral and ethical reasons, but mostly because I was too paranoid to run the program on my computer. 
Adding to this effect, blogs and news websites started reporting the story and providing links to the downed Scientology sites. So anyone that clicked on those links to see whether or not the websites were really down inadvertantly helped keep them down. 
Talking about Anonymous is confusing because there are a lot of different factions, and not all of them agree. But the faction truely dedicated to bring down Co$ has moved on protesting outside their buildings and spreading awareness about the abuses of Scientology anywhere they can. Which brings me here today. 
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Now, as far as Valkyrie goes, any hope that movie had of being taken seriously went out the window when they ditched the concept of using German accents. Goodbye, Oscar. Plus, if the thread about Mr. Moviemaker and Mr. Moviestar down in the BI section of this forum is to be belived (and I think it holds some credibility), some major forces in Hollywood are aligning against Cruise to make sure his movies bomb. That's probably not too hard, when it comes to Valkyrie. And, from an Anonymous perspective, we're noticing that Fox media is alarmingly supportive of our cause (Fox and Anonymous, under normal circumstances, would get along like oil and water), and it was Fox that trashed the trailor for the movie just a few days before this move was annouced. I don't think Fox will be alone in this. The media's fed up with getting sued everytime they say something bad about Scientology.
Forces are aligning against Co$ and its posterboy Tom Cruise, and all because they're incapable of playing nicely with others. I'm just sad that Bryan Singer and Kenneth Branagh are getting caught in the crossfire.