May 13, 2008
Wikimedia Foundation receives copyright infringement claim from Mormon Church
The Wikimedia Foundation has received a copyright infringement claim from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as the Mormon Church. The infringement claim is in reference to a URL used as a source in a Wikinews article about Mormon Church documents leaked to the website Wikileaks, titled “Copy of handbook for [...]
Comments (1) Filed under: NewsLog, North America, Politics, Religion, Technology, internet, speech — wikinews @ 9:16 pmApril 30, 2008
US Dept. of Justice IP address blocked after ‘vandalism’ edits to Wikipedia
Wikinews has learned that a United States Department of Justice (DOJ) IP Address has been blocked on Wikipedia after making edits to an article which were considered “vandalism”. In two separate instances, the IP address from the DOJ removed information from the Wikipedia article about the organization Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in [...]
Comments (1) Filed under: NewsLog, Technology, internet, speech — wikinews @ 10:45 amApril 18, 2008
YouTube accounts of Scientology critics suspended
Two well-known critics of Scientology have had their user accounts on the video sharing website YouTube suspended. The YouTube accounts of both Tory Christman and Mark Bunker were suspended this week. In an exclusive statement to Wikinews, YouTube explained why accounts are suspended, but did not specifically state why these particular accounts were suspended. Neither [...]
Comments (1) Filed under: NewsLog, Religion, internet, speech — wikinews @ 11:23 amApril 11, 2008
Authorities in Belgium raid Church of Scientology
According to reports, authorities in Belgium have seized documents, financial records and computer equipment form the local branch of the Church of Scientology and then sealed off the building.
According to reports, the Church in Belgium is being investigated for extortion and fraud after posting false job openings in newspapers then attempting to get those who [...]
April 7, 2008
Church of Scientology warns Wikileaks over documents
Wikinews has learned that the Church of Scientology warned the documents-leaking site Wikileaks.org that they are in violation of United States copyright laws after they published several documents related to the Church. Wikileaks has no intention of complying, and states that in response, it intends to publish thousands of Scientology documents next week.
In the letter [...]
March 23, 2008
Banned Scientology parody film ‘The Profit’ appears on Web
Copies of The Profit, a 2001 film blocked from distribution in the United States due to a court injunction won by the Church of Scientology, appeared on the Internet Friday on peer-to-peer file-sharing websites and on the video sharing site YouTube.
Directed by former film executive Peter N. Alexander, movie critics have characterized The Profit as [...]
March 16, 2008
Protesters arrested at anti-Scientology event in Atlanta
While protesting outside the Scientology Church of Georgia in Atlanta, two members of the group Anonymous were arrested by DeKalb County riot police while standing opposite the Church of Scientology-owned building.
The two protesters, who earlier on participated in the delivery of a ‘global speech’ collaboratively written and read by members of Anonymous at protests worldwide, [...]
March 2, 2008
Darwin Ist Tot: Intelligent Design is Not Creationism
One man’s magic is another man’s science.
Religious essayist Rev. Eric Strachan of the New Life Community Church in Ontario, Canada has published a short essay in The Daily Observer called “The Wonders of Intelligent Design.”
Strachan writes: “There’s a difference in the things that God creates, and the stuff that men and women design, a world [...]
February 28, 2008
Rights groups: Forcing Wikileaks.org off line raises ’serious First Amendment concerns’
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) have sided with Wikileaks.org and will defend them against a lawsuit with took the site off line in the United States. Wikileaks is a website dedicated to hosting leaked documents that are “anonymous, untraceable, uncensorable.”
On February 18, 2008, a permanent court injunction issued [...]
February 22, 2008
Public Christianity
Nowadays, in order to justify each and every sin under the sun, each and every assault upon the moral fiber of a community or a nation – one approach fits all – the ne’er-do-well need only say the magic word “privacy,” then sit back, relax and smile while his or her “high and holy” foes [...]
Comments (2) Filed under: Education, OP/ED, Religion, Vox Populi, speech — Steve Farrell @ 12:46 pm