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> But again, to the point: what's the significance of clicking these
> links?

Dear Scott,

The journalists who are covering this scandal need to know that there is
profit in covering Scientology scandals. Vistitor clicks to their stories
are monitored by their tech-heads and then presented to their auditing
departments. This is the way they track topics worth pursuing.

This encourages them to write more of the same. Since the way a newpaper
earns money is to present audited sales to potential advertisers to induce
them to advertise in said newspaper. i.e. The larger the audited sales are,
the more likely it is that Ford Motor Compant will place an advertisement in
your newspaper with its massive circulation.

The equivalent numbers game for an online newpaper is the amount of eyeballs
(clicks) they can get. Everyone wants more clicks. They want stories athat
will bring the requisite eyeballs to their online newspaper. If ytou click
on these stories you are telling these people two things:
1/ Keep the story going. (Because it is still bringing in the clicks.)
2/ Find more stories about the same topic. (Because it will bring in more
clicks.)

....and if you leave a comment on as many of these sites as is possible then
you compound the effect. A simple "Well done on this great story! The world
needs to know more about this insidious bunch of ....etc. Please write some
more stories for us about Scientology. I would be immensely grateful....etc)
i.e. Give them a warm fuzzy.

This is how a small lever can shift the earth. Believe in your democratic
right to speak freely and without fear. Make democracy work.

.....errrrm. The last bit was to get Scott's juices flowing so that he can
go out and leap tall buildings.

Anyway, hear is an updated list:

The current Scientology scandal regarding GOOGLE is being covered by these
News websites. (Kept at:
http://www.factnet.org/Scientology/Google_Scientology.html )

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20020326wo62.htm
http://www.golem.de/0203/18971.html
http://www.intern.de/news/2693.html
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jo-21.03.02-001/
http://www.pcwelt.de/news/internet/22662/
http://www.digl-watch.com/copyright.htm
http://ojr.usc.edu/content/ejc.cfm?request=1097#6
http://www.davosnewbies.com/2002/03/22
http://www1.asisomos.com/canales/one_news.asp?IDNews=252
http://www.netslaves.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=005&action=display&n...
016861532&start=0
http://www.rc3.org/
http://www.onepointzero.com/comments/entry1272
http://www.truerwords.net/index/2002/03/21
http://everythingisnt.com/
http://zgp.org/linux-elitists/3C9ADA57.5CD45FE@kuro5hin.org.html
http://overlawyered.com/
http://www.forbes.com/newswire/2002/03/22/rtr549273.html
http://www.usethesource.com/cgi-bin/article.pl?sid=02/03/24/1745222
http://www.at-web.de/google/operation_clambake.htm
http://napps.nwfusion.com/compendium/archives/00000008.html
http://rollberg.antville.org/topics/Zensur/26729/
http://www.rp-online.de/news/multimedia/online/2002-0322/sekte.html
http://www.suchfibel.de/news/ScientologyerzwingtSeite.htm
http://megarad.com/article.php?sid=625
http://www.fnl.nl/news/shownews.php3?TickerID=2002.03.21-bho-000
http://www.lisnews.com/gcommentSubmit.php3?sid=20020322111203&pid=0
http://lists.infoanarchy.org/pipermail/p2pj/2002-March/000606.html
http://davenet.userland.com/2002/03/21/scientologyAndGoogle
http://www.msnbc.com/news/728041.asp?0si=-
http://www.symlink.ch/articles/02/03/21/1422209.shtml
http://www.quicktopic.com/13/H/X7PBh2nZVWBhb
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/24533.html
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/articles/government_article-4659.html
http://www.techfocus.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&s...
83&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
http://www.poynter.org/tidbits/
http://www.winterspeak.com/2002_03_01_archive.html#75029769
http://www.paradox1x.org/archives/00000397.shtml
http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16938.html
http://ain.com.ua/web/2002/03/22/1029.html
http://neworder.box.sk/smsread.php?newsid=3686
http://www.star.niu.edu/forum/articles/032502-our.asp
http://www.silicon.com/bin/bladerunner?30REQEVENT=&REQAUTH=21046&14001RE...
=REQINT1=52212
http://www.internet-magazine.com/news/view.asp?id=2387
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175421.html
http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/10695.phtml
http://www.microcontentnews.com/articles/googlechurch.htm
http://www.techfocus.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&s...
77
http://news.lycos.com/news/story.asp?section=Politics&storyId=361627&top...
lambake
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/business/technology/29...
5.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2002/03/22/google.htm
http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/020322/n22206750_1.html
http://www.cosmiverse.com/tech03220202.html
http://forum.fuckedcompany.com/phpcomments/index.php?newsid=84606&sid=1&...
=1&parentid=0&crapfilter=1
http://cbc.ca/stories/2002/03/22/xenugoogle020322
http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/opinion/story/0,24330,3377400,00.html
http://www.morons.org/articles/7/1472
http://www.metafilter.com/comments.mefi/15684
http://geek.com/news/geeknews/2002mar/gee20020322010860.htm
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/03/22/google.reut/index.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020322/wr_nm/tech_go...
_dc_2
http://reuters.com/news_article.jhtml;jsessionid=WRKEFR0K1SCWGCRBAEOCFEY...
RKIWD?type=internetnews&StoryID=730033
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/business/technology/2910195.htm
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-866058.html
http://wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51233,00.html
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-865936.html
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/3/20/8222/92911
http://slashdot.org/yro/02/03/21/0453200.shtml?tid=99
http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=scientology
http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=154205&group=webcast
http://www.operatingthetan.com/google/
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jo-21.03.02-001/

The origins of Scientology's efforts to censor the Internet is discussed in
these pages:

http://www.operatingthetan.com/google/
http://www.xtdnet.nl/paul/PrioriyTelecom-Xenu.html
http://www2.thecia.net/users/rnewman/scientology/home.html
http://www.xs4all.nl/~felipe/cos/
http://www.cyberlaw.com/cylw0495.html
http://www.rickross.com/reference/scientology/Scien30.html
http://www.skeptic.com/03.3.jl-jj-scientology.html
http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/CoS/
http://www.watchman.org/sci/c0$p1.htm
http://atheism.about.com/cs/scientologyvsth/
http://www.lermanet.com/cisar/010319b.htm
http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/1999/06/07/editorial1.html
http://www.factnet.org/briefing.htm

IOHO
FACTNet Staff

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