Project Chanology

Protestujący, mający nałożone maski lub szaliki i okulary przeciwsłoneczne zakrywające twarz.

Project Chanology (pol. „Projekt Chanologia”), zwany także Operation Chanology[1] – anonimowy protest grupy użytkowników głównie imageboardu 4chan i portalu Encyclopedia Dramatica przeciwko praktykom Kościoła Scjentologii, największej organizacji promującej scjentologię na świecie. Projekt został stworzony w odpowiedzi na próby usunięcia w styczniu 2008 roku materiałów z wywiadu z Tomem Cruise na temat Scjentologii; jest przykładem efektu Streisand.

„Message to Scientology”, 21 stycznia 2008

Projekt publicznie rozpoczął się wraz z publikacją 21 stycznia 2008 roku w serwisie YouTube nagrania wideo zatytułowanego Message to Scientology (pol. „Wiadomość do Scjentologii”). Wideo przedstawia pogląd tej grupy, iż próby usunięcia wywiadu są próbami ocenzurowania internetu. Niedługo potem odbyło się kilka dystrybuowanych ataków typu DoS na strony internetowe scjentologii, wysyłanie czarnych faksów oraz dowcipne dzwonienie na numery telefonów organizacji. W lutym tego samego roku metody grupy zostały zamienione na pokojowe protesty.

Przypisy

  1. ↑ Chris Landers. The Internets Are Going to War, „Baltimore City Paper”, 25 stycznia 2008

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Message to Scientology.ogv
"Message to Scientology" video.
Original text to right of video as uploaded to YouTube:

Hello, leaders of Scientology. We are Anonymous.

Over the years, we have been watching you. Your campaigns of misinformation; your suppression of dissent; your litigious nature, all of these things have caught our eye. With the leakage of your latest propaganda video into mainstream circulation, the extent of your malign influence over those who have come to trust you as leaders, has been made clear to us. Anonymous has therefore decided that your organization should be destroyed. For the good of your followers, for the good of mankind--and for our own enjoyment--we shall proceed to expel you from the Internet and systematically dismantle the Church of Scientology in its present form. We recognize you as a serious opponents, and we are prepared for a long, long campaign. You will not prevail forever against the angry masses of the body politic. Your methods, hypocrisy, and the artlessness of your organization have sounded its death knell.

You have nowhere to hide because we are everywhere.

We cannot die; we are forever. We're getting bigger every day--and solely by the force of our ideas, malicious and hostile as they often are. If you want another name for your opponent, then call us Legion, for we are many.

Yet for all that we are not as monstrous as you are; still our methods are a parallel to your own. Doubtless you will use the Anon's actions as an example of the persecution you have so long warned your followers would come; this is acceptable. In fact, it is encouraged. We are your SPs.

Gradually as we merge our pulse with that of your "Church", the suppression of your followers will become increasingly difficult to maintain. Believers will wake, and see that salvation has no price. They will know that the stress, the frustration that they feel is not something that may be blamed upon Anonymous. No--they will see that it stems from a source far closer to each. Yes, we are SPs. But the sum of suppression we could ever muster is eclipsed by that of the RTC.

Knowledge is free.

We are Anonymous.

We are Legion.

We do not forgive.

We do not forget.

Expect us.

Anonymous Scientology 1 by David Shankbone.JPG
Autor: David Shankbone , Licencja: CC-BY-SA-3.0
Protest by an Internet group calling itself 'Anonymous' against the practices and tax status of the w:Church of Scientology. The protesters believe the church is a cult that harms its practitioners, and that its tax-free status as a church should be revoked, as, they claim, it appears to be more of a corporation.