Most excellent article. The first Operation Chanology raid occurred on February 2, 2009 in Orlando Florida where approximately 150 protesters turned out.

Jeff responds: I’m sure you mean February 2, 2008. And yes, I should have mentioned that. You were the ones who started with the suit and tie idea, yes? I didn’t remember how many had showed up there. VWD!

I have had PLENTY of vids flagged as violating this or DMCA that. Just fight them! I’ve had many of my videos restored. In fact, I’m about to make a DMCA counter-claim myself. Getting your account closed was EXACTLY what $cientology wanted. You have given them a win and made them moar upstat.

There are three primary reasons why CoS cannot infiltrate Anonymous, and the article to a certain extent explains two of them:

1) no true organization – even if CoS flooded the boards that anons organize on with notions that anonymous should stop protesting, then the people who actually protest can still simply choose to turn up. there is no way to enforce peer pressure in an anonymous setting – plus our mods are good at weeding out people who do not stay on target.

2) CoS is very careful with letting their members go online. it is a too great a source of true facts on the cult, something that CoS does not want its members exposed to. the mass infiltration required to make it appear as if the majority of anonymous wanted to stop would take too many people to pull off. similarly, on most chanology boards those ‘forbidden’ facts are posted very regularly simply to ward off scilon spys. (or to taint them, or piss them off, whatever)

3) very few people have actually been fair gamed, compared to how many protest. equally, then while CoS was VERY aggressive when Chanology started, now after 1½ years of protests they have actually changed tactics. they no longer seek out anonymous for confrontation (bullbaiting) as much as they used to, in many places anons have not seen scilon handlers (those sent out by CoS to ‘handle’ anons when protesting) in a very long time. CoS has essentially given up fighting anonymous, and instead barricaded themselves.
– the reasons to this are many, both that CoS fears loosing members since anonymous tries very hard to inform the people sent out against them of CoS’s true nature (to make them doubt, leave the cult), and because its resource intensive for the cult, and because anonymous has been VERY good at finding all the cults dirty secrets, which are delicious for the purpose of convincing people to leave the cult.

come to http://www.whyweprotest.net – ask around if you’re concerned – we will give you the trufax