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Clarification: To avoid confusion, I think I’d best point out that I am not Russell Shaw, the prominent Phoenix-based Realtor and proud Scientologist. We are not related (although we both blog and have swapped emails from time to time). Yesterday, on...
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Clarification: To avoid confusion, I think I’d best point out that I am not Russell Shaw, the prominent Phoenix-based Realtor and proud Scientologist. We are not related (although we both blog and have swapped emails from time to time). Yesterday, on Web pages such as this one, I read accounts of a 93-city protest against the Church of Scientology and its objections to information about its practices and beliefs being placed on the Internet. The main beefs of this Anonymous group seemed to be that the Church is overly litigious, especially when it comes to non-authorized online publication of some of its tenets. While I am a First Amendment absolutist, I don’t really see the difference between Scientology objecting to the publication of copyrighted text- and say, a “standard” religious publisher objecting if, say, an annotated Bible were cut and paste whole into an outside website or even Wikipedia. But to me, there is even a bigger issue. They call Scientology a cult, and yesterday,... See less