Hackers vs. Scientology (Part 1 of 6)

Gabriella Coleman's lecture "Old and New Net Wars over Free Speech & Secrecy or How to Understand the Lulz battle against the Church of Scientology", at NYU's ITP on March 5, 2010.

A video presentation about the question why geeks have been compelled to protest the Church of Scientology vehemently for nearly two decades.

Videographer: Stephen Bruckett
Editor: Patrick Davison

This work is published by Gabriella Coleman under a free Creative Commons Attribution Sharealike license.

Full text of permission can be found here:
http://nocensorshit.co.cc/index.php?id=hackers-vs-scientology

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• scientology
• anonymous
• chanology
• geeks
• hackers
• 4chan
• lulz
• gabriella
• coleman

[Invisibrah]

I quit at about 0:45

I can't take anyone like this seriously.

[KrisAB]

Great subject, but COME ON university-educated people. It's "couldn't care less", not "could care less". If you COULD care less, it's like, "Okay, so why don't you?"

[sKepptiksowat]

@Snarkonymous

Well played sir, well played.

[Snarkonymous]

@sKepptiksowat made powerpoint back in the day, in his kitched, with two quarts of olive oil and a dead ferret.

[sKepptiksowat]

no censor? Why was the Powerpoint slide blurred? lol...Doesn't matter because this is awesome and Powerpoint sucks.