alt_religion_scientology/FACTNetARS20020125

From: < XXX-Obsolete.email.Deleted-XXX > (Lawrence Wollersheim)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
Subject: Earthlink no longer promoting Scientology?
Date: 25 Jan 2002 08:37:08 -0800
Message-ID: <67cf5f5d.0201250837.f35ada3@posting.google.com>
NNTP-Posting-Date: 25 Jan 2002 16:37:08 GMT

On 21st November 2001FACTNet posted a Newsletter called "Is Earthlink
promoting Church of Scientology in spite of its denials of involvement
with the cult?". Which is found at
http://www.factnet.org/letters/FACTNewsNovember2001.html

The gist of the article was:

1. the first 53 results are all pro-scientology. See:
http://www.factnet.org/Scientology/EarthlinkScientologyBias.html

2. the first 53 results all seem to be based on a common template.
See: http://www.lermanet.com/cos/webspamplan.htm

3. novice or naïve users of the internet are presented with heavily
biased results. Is this not a form of preferential treatment for
Scientology and censorship of opposing views to the benefit of the
Scientology cult?

4. Sky Dayton ( http://home.earthlink.net/~sky/ ), founder and board
member of EarthLink, is a Scientologist.

FACTNet would like to announce that at this moment (January 25th 2002)
searching on the word "Scientology" brings up ZERO results.

We think that this is progress. Even if a little extreme.

We even took a screenshot for our archive. See:
http://www.factnet.org/images/EarthlinkNoScientology.jpg

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