Newsweek Hits Homerun With: "Anonymous Takes On Scientology"
Mainstream media outlet Newsweek covered the ongoing struggle of the internet-based group Anonymous' cohesive attack against the Church of Scientology. What started out as a slap at COS and YouTube for violating free speech when YouTube pulled a leaked video showing Hollywood's Tom Cruise shilling for his favorite cause, the COS, turned into a full scale war on the organization.
Gawker, who knew a good thing when they saw it, saved the video before it was yanked from YouTube and refused to remove it despite letters of a copyright infringement of a litigious nature from the officials at COS. "Anonymous", once a loose-net group of young hackers, then seized the opportunity and saw beyond the immediate "free speech violation" to a more sinister and subversive ploy within the COS. The group put a call out to respond to this momentum against the COS and prepared ground troops for action across the globe, beginning with centers in Australia.
Despite initial false reports of violence at the protest, the event was in fact a huge win for Anonymous. And as light falls across the various timezones of the planet, so too it seems, will the legions of the Anonymous army upon the oppressive and secretive centers of the Church of Scientology.
Good job Newsweek, let's see if any other mainstream media sources can report on this story with all the facts in tact.
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