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First, we shouldn’t endorse hackers. Second, we shouldn’t express views on religion or politics. Third, this story just made me laugh out load - so apologies if it offends!

Looks like Internet hackers have targeted the Church of Scientology in a pretty big way, first by carrying out a denial of service on the international web site of the church, which is sort of funny but not very clever, and secondly by “Google bombing” that is manipulating the way the internet search engine works to ensure that the Church of Scientology is returned as the first hit whenever anyone enters the search string “dangerous cult”. Again not very nice, but pretty clever and sort of funny!

The background to this is the main reason for the post though. It seems that this all stems from the removal of the Tom Cruise “blast” video from You Tube, which many believe was forced on You Tube by the Church, which once again goes to show the ‘power’ of the consumer on the internet. In reality it does seem better to ‘put up and shut up’ rather than draw attention to things that you may disapprove of.

Via [Telegraph]