01 May 2001
standin2 <standin2@my-deja.com
I doubted this until last night when I called Earthlink.
The customer service rep I talked to went ape shit for lack of a better
term.
I hadn't given Scientology much thought except to kind of chuckle when John
Travolta and Battlefield Earth was brought up I had lived next door to a
family that went through hell getting away from what I guess has to be
thought of as a cult.
Here is the original note I posted both at a Earthlink group and to
alt.religion.scientology, a group that Earthlink software, that crap that
includes POET or whatever it is these days, blocks when supplied to members
of the so called church. You have to wonder about a provider that so easly
provides software designed to limit the access of it's members on request
of a "religion". I doubt even the Mormons are that extreme.
I was used Primenet for 8 years, a long time by internet standards. But
there is no way I want even a chance that a bunch like Scientology is
watching what I do or using info from my IP to try and recrute my children.
here is the original post"
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Last night I called Earthlink to ask about this and ended up canceling my
account after the customer service rep began asking the following
questions:
1. Who told me about the link ?
Funny who is the paranoid in this?
Well all these things are not that hard to find out and I have had a
neighbor that was a Scientologist and the only internet provider his family
was allowed by the church to use was first Earthlink.
Paranoid ? Well maybe yes. I watched what my neighbor went through when he
tried to leave Scientology. Nothing like what happens if you just decide to
stop going to Mass believe me.
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2. Which web sites I had looked at ?
3. How did I find out that Earthlink supplies specials versions of browsers
to Scientology members that block non approved or sites like
http://www.clambake.com.
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