Today Mark Bunker’s XenuTV Youtube account went down again, thanks to yet another false DCMA claim. This one was by the “American Rights Counsel LLC,” an organization that seems to exist only on YouTube.
XenuTV wasn’t the only victim of these false copyright claims. Many anons had their own home videos removed. Some videos not protected by the United States’ DCMA were removed. One of mine was removed. (more…)
Glamour Magazine has an article in their latest issue about Jenna, Astra and Kendra’s site:
This past February, the trio launched a website, exscientologykids.com, for young people who have left or are thinking of leaving Scientology. “When a person leaves,” says Kendra, “they face a big void. We help them fill that.” The site, which offers support through e-mails, Web chats and phone calls, has about 2,500 visitors per day.
You can visit the site at ExScientologyKids.com.
What’s it like being the webmaster of Xenu.net? You have to deal with email such as this:
Why do you waste your time on this site full of lies? You have no proof and never will about how great it is. Scientology helps people, you people only help us by giving us more good press. Our rate is going up daily with more members and will proceed to do that. Maybe you can focus your “Free Time” on maybe improving your body? …just a guess. I hope cancer will soon infest into your body and hopefully finally you will be erased.
This one has been getting a lot of attention.
Google has murdered the AdSense account run by one of the web’s most influential anti-Scientology sites.
Yesterday, the search giant cut off all ads served to Enturbulation, a fledgling site dedicated to promoting activism against the Church of Scientology and all its related organizations. This could have something do with the nature of the ads Google was serving. Many of the Google-driven ads funding the anti-Scientology site were paid for by the Church of Scientology.
“While going through our records recently, we found that your AdSense account has posed a significant risk to our AdWords advertisers,” read Google’s letter to Enturbulation, a kind of home base for the now famous Anonymous movement. “Since keeping your account in our publisher network may financially damage our advertisers in the future, we’ve decided to disable your account.”
This isn’t going over well. Uninvolved websites are taking issue with Google’s decision, and a lot of previously uninterested people are as well. If Scientology did indeed pressure Google then a lot of Googlewatchers are now watching Scientology; and they’re not impressed at what’s being done to their favourite company.
Ian [Halprin] also suggests Nicole, who is expecting a child with her husband country star Keith Urban, is planning to move to Los Angeles to be closer to her two older children and mainly as an effort to help extract them from the secretive, insular church.
The Deathwinds is up.
Siding with a criminally-convicted cult tends to have repercussions, none of which look good for your publicly-traded company.
The new Scientology Channel, a paid channel (good to know where those fixed donations are going) is up and running and cheerfully spreading the CoS propaganda unfettered by bothersome rules about opening a new account after having your first one banned.
For what it’s worth, Youtube hasn’t responded to my previous query… so I sent another one to abuse@youtube.com. If I don’t get a response I’ll assume it was lost and just have to send it again, and again, and again.
Hello,
I am enquiring about your new Account Restoration Fee.
It seems you’ve allowed ChurchofScientology to keep their account even though their secondary AnonymousFacts account was suspended from your service.
A spokesperson for the Church of Scientology states here that they are responsible for the AnonymousFacts account: http://www.nypost.com/seven/03152008/gossip/pagesix/toms_church_counterattacks_101990.htm
Ryan Benno from Valencia, Calif., is shown, as well as Jonathan Brown from Tarzana, Calif., who is making a goofy face in his photo, and Sean Carasov from Los Angeles. None of the men in the videos could be reached for comment.
A spokesperson for the Church of Scientology said, “We absolutely made the videos.”
“We have researchers that have found these men. When you get death threats and bomb threats directly going after the church, we don’t take it lightly.”
From your own ToS agreement:
When a user has posting privileges temporarily disabled on one account, for the duration of the suspension that user is also prohibited from posting material to YouTube using any other account. Attempts to circumvent this rule may result in immediate termination without warning of all accounts.
A user whose account has been terminated is prohibited from accessing, possessing or creating any other YouTube accounts.
I would like to help others get accounts restored, but I’d like to know how much you charge for service re-instatement. I am interested in knowing which ToS violations committed on your servers by users are easily excused by the writing of a cheque.
a) How much is your new “Account Restoration Fee”?
b) Does this new policy apply to individuals or to businesses only?
c) Are all infractions wiped clean with payment, or only specific ones (such as harassment and bullying)?
d) Are payments a flat fee, or are they to be sustained daily/weekly/monthly for the existence of the fee-paying account?
I look forward to your prompt reply.
Thank you for your time,
Now that the Cult has its own Youtube page, I decided to ask Youtube to clarify a new point of their policy.
Previously the church of scientology was banned for ToS violations. One of their videos was located at ?v=XCB0HkaH0oU
The Church of Scientology now has a paid account at youtube.com/ChurchofScientology
How much is YouTube’s account restoration fee? I am interested in starting a collection to restore xenutv1 and would like to know my target.
I will keep you abreast of any developments.
In an attempt to stop a rampaging tornado with a fart, the cult has made a big deal about launching a YouTube channel. It’s odd that the videos are hosted on Scientology.net rather than Youtube.com. Hmm. Here is their press relololololease: (more…)
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