p2pnet - rss feed: Google and Scientology cosy up
p2pnet news | Freedom:- Scientology cultists have a lot in common with the corporate entertainment cartels.
Both groups detest the Net because it allows people around the world to communicate with each other freely and openly in a way that’s never before been possible.
Freedom of speech is an anathema to CoS and Hollywood and the Big 4 labels because it means they can no longer control and censor information and data flows.
P2P —- people to people —- power is the principal force of the digital 21st century.
With that in mind, Enturbulation was launched to “assist people with information concerning the Scientology Organization & to encourage activism in spreading awareness.”
Fair enough. Anything which aims to spread the word about the evil Cult of Scientology is to be encouraged.
Here’s the subject line of an email p2pnet received yesterday >>>
Google AdSense bends and spreads cheeks for Scientology
“Most of you have noticed that we often have Church of Scientology ads running on our site,” says Enturbulation, going on >>>
We use Google AdSense, which picks ads based on the text of a given page.
Advertisers purchase keywords, and the more frequently those words are used, the more likely their ads will run. This means we have no control over what ads appear.Of course, the irony of Scientology ads appearing on Enturbulation is not lost on us.
No kidding. But it gets richer.
“This morning, we received an email from Google AdSense,” says Enturbulation, to wit >>>
Hello {Admin},
While going through our records recently, we found that your AdSense account has posed a significant risk to our AdWords advertisers. Since keeping your account in our publisher network may financially damage our advertisers in the future, we’ve decided to disable your account.
Please understand that we consider this a necessary step to protect the interests of both our advertisers and our other AdSense publishers. We realize the inconvenience this may cause you, and we thank you in advance for your understanding and cooperation.
If you have any questions about your account or the actions we’ve taken, please do not reply to this email. You can find more information by visiting
https://www.google.com/adsense/suppo…57153&hl=en_US.
Sincerely,
The Google AdSense Team
Adds Enturbulation >>>
It is safe to assume that the Church of Scientology did not like paying for ads which effectively supported our site, and contacted Google about this. However, as we have no control over the ads, the situation is rather frustrating.
Imagine if Pepsi ads began appearing on Coke’s website. Would Pepsi be able to have Coke’s adsense account disabled? It is not implausible to imagine the Church of Scientology buying keywords such as “Anonymous” and “Enturbulation” (ensuring that their ads would appear on our site) with the sole purpose of disabling our account.
Right. We know how that feels. Do No Evil chopped the p2pnet AdSense account many moons ago and our various efforts to find out why met with stony corporate silence.
But no worries for the anti-CoS people.
“Financially, this is an inconvenience, but not a threat,” says Enturbulation. “We have a cash buffer, allowing us to continue for several months at our current usage. In addition, the admins and mods feel strongly enough about the success of Chanology that we will personally ensure the continued operation of Enturbulation.org.
“All we ask of you, the users, is to spread the word of this new development. Contact Google (we’ll find the proper email addresses) and let them know what you think. In the event of a hostile entity purchasing ads with the specific purpose of disabling the site’s adsense account, what options or recourse does the site have? Ask them, ask digg, ask anyone who might listen.”
(Thanks, YKW)
Jon Newton - p2pnet
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May 17th, 2008 at 10:26 am
Scientology must and will be destroyed. Its time is not long. Thanks for covering this development.
May 17th, 2008 at 11:59 am
A scam such as scientology can not survive Internet just like the scam of the music industry.
Once people know about them they walk away.
Scientology and the majors look alike. They are a bunch of parasites criminal exploiting the gullible and robing our societies.
May 17th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
OMG they are so fuckin evil! Sheesh, censors suck.. CensorSHIP sucks, and historical revisionism, well don’t get me started.. Nways.. [Picture of the Nazi book burning]
May 17th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Scientology is a cult!
May 17th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
I recommend the free download of FireFox after which you delete Internet Explorer. Once you have FireFox, install the freeware that allows you to block ALL Google and AdSense ads permanently. I did this two weeks ago and have had absolutely no trouble nor so much as one cult of scientology ad or google ad. Tell them both to get stuffed!
May 17th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
scientology = scamology!
May 17th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
Google has always had the Motto “Do no evil”, now it appears that they’ve been leaving out the second part of the motto all these years, “…to our bottom line”
May 17th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
This is no different from teen-oriented magazines that refuse to tell the truth about the War because they know that the military would likely cancel its massive recruitment advertising contract.
“He who pays the piper calls the tune” has always been rule#1.
May 17th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
figures a church seeks to spread the cheeks of anything.
Kepp your kids away from them.
May 18th, 2008 at 6:58 am
I have definitely lost a lot of respect for Google crawling into bed with a Cult, but
not as much as for CNN’s total and blatant disregard for the truth.
CNN Viewer Communications Management
“CNN, The Most Trusted Name In News”
BULLSHIT!!
May 18th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
a site for those tired of cultist rantings
http://www.goanonymous.org/
by the way, I saw the southpark episode on the cult, and I have to ask how stoned/lobotomized do you have to be to believe any of this nonsense.
May 18th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Scientology is just about the best thing that has ever come along in the field of spirituality. You should really read some of the material. buy a book on the subject you. Something like “The problems of work” Man that book is really amazing!
I can only laugh at most of the pathetic excuses for free thinkers that go along with whatever their peers tell them. Open your eyes for once and think for yourself ! Anyway clowns, im off for my weekly “brainwashing” session.
seeya
M
May 18th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
if google gets in with scientology they will lose a lot of business. well the scientology cult is not going to win People know a good deal about their crimes and abuses. God
Bless. Anonymous for good work.
May 18th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
Xenu 1 Anonymous 0
End of First Period.
~Juvy
May 18th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
@ michael
‘im off for my weekly “brainwashing” session.’
Obviously successful
May 19th, 2008 at 1:33 am
Florida should do like Texas did with the Fundamentalist Mormons: raid the Scientology compound and remove all the children from that abusive environment.
May 19th, 2008 at 5:06 am
Michael: “Open your eyes for once and think for yourself”
Yet u advocate censorship. How ironic, hypocritical, illogical, and irrational.
Don’t worry everyone, their day is coming like with Christendom and all false worship
May 19th, 2008 at 5:10 am
Everyone link to and advertise p2pnet. Freedom to speak the truth at least
May 19th, 2008 at 9:23 am
You are behind.
Xenu 1 Anonymous 100
End of Second Period.
Xenu is in deep shit!
May 20th, 2008 at 12:52 am
To be quite honest, Xenu is Anonymous’ homeboy. He’s the Bad Guy (TM) in Scientology mythology.
May 21st, 2008 at 6:22 am
I’ ve come to the conclusion that those who support Scientology are either:
1) corrupt (accepted money or blackmail from the cult)
2) conned (they believed cult lies)
I cannot explain otherwise why a criminal organization enjoy so much freedom to con people.