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The Register is reporting that Wikipedia has banned The Church of Scientology.
In an unprecedented effort to crack down on self-serving edits, the Wikipedia supreme court has banned contributions from all IP addresses owned or operated by the Church of Scientology and its associates.
Closing out the longest-running court case in Wikiland history, the site’s Arbitration Committee voted 10 to 0 (with one abstention) in favor of the move, which takes effect immediately.
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I imagine that this will just lead to a group of data entry zealots at the Sea Org working from home now…
We all know this is a sect and what their intentions are. It shouldn’t be up to Wikipedia to fight the scientology but to the US govt to ban from the country forever. Here’s a real trial happening in France, which I hope will mean the end of the infamous group of crooks they are:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i7v1OA-sxTlACtuGXfF6SFbeHEZAD98DDQT04
A funny quote from the article above:
“The U.S. State Department has criticized Belgium, Germany and other European countries for labeling Scientology a cult or sect and enacting laws to restrict its operations.
Why in the world am I still in the US?
will this affect its status as the official religion of hollywood?
Yes!!! At last! Wikipedia is not enough….Scientology should be banned from earth too :D
The price of freedom is having to listen to the likes of the Church of Scientology without being able to impose a federal ban on their ‘religious’ activities in order for the rest of us to continue to have a choice in what we choose and choose not to worship. Still, I’m glad to see the Wikipedia crack-down, this is one case where the Church of Scientology has been known to abuse the system and is rightfully banned, just as any other group of individual would be under the same circumstances.
Now, if they’d just get caught up in a baby-sacrificing scandal, or something, so we’d have just cause to label them a dangerous cult, and we’d be all set. . .
LMAO, I can’t believe what the comments here are saying especially after just reading the article about the student converting his school locker into a banned book depository.
Do you guys even know what “free speech” is?
@Oliver: Just because Scientology is an insane sect doesn’t mean it’s legal to ban it. Passing legislation directed expressly against one religion goes completely against the Constitution, no matter how crazy it is. The leaders could be prosecuted for stealing money and ruining lives, but the religion itself shouldn’t be banned.
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