In January 2008, a promotional video of Tom Cruise discussing Scientology as a superior force destined to save humanity was leaked. This video quickly went viral, but the Church of Scientology, known for its aggressive stance against criticism and strict control of its image, attempted to remove it from the internet using legal threats and copyright claims.Anonymous, a decentralized collective of users, mostly from forums like 4chan, saw this censorship as a direct affront to freedom of expression. In response, they launched Project Chanology, a campaign of resistance against the church.### Phase 1: Online Operations Initially, Anonymous' actions were confined to the digital realm. They used DDoS attacks to overload the church’s websites, sent thousands of black-ink faxes to drain their resources, and carried out email and phone campaigns filled with mocking messages. These efforts aimed to draw public attention to the church’s repressive tactics.### Phase 2: Public Protests The pivotal moment came on February 10, 2008, when Anonymous organized simultaneous protests in over 100 cities worldwide. Outside Church of Scientology locations, hundreds of people demonstrated wearing Guy Fawkes masks—borrowed from the movie *V for Vendetta*—as a symbol of anonymity and resistance. Banners and slogans denounced the church’s abusive practices, such as the economic exploitation of its members, psychological control, and harassment of critics.### Why Target Scientology? For decades, the church had been under suspicion for questionable practices, such as forcing members to pay exorbitant sums to "advance" within its hierarchy, silencing ex-members with legal threats, and aggressively pursuing any critics. Anonymous viewed these actions as violations of fundamental principles of freedom and transparency.### The Impact of the Movement Although Project Chanology did not dismantle the Church of Scientology, it successfully exposed many of its practices to public scrutiny. The protests received widespread media coverage, and the movement helped sow doubt about the church’s legitimacy. At the same time, Chanology marked a shift for Anonymous, evolving from being known for simple trolling to being seen as a group with more serious activist goals.### The Legacy of Chanology The project not only tarnished Scientology’s public image but also set a precedent for future hacktivism movements. It demonstrated how digital tools and real-world protests could be combined to challenge powerful institutions. While the momentum of the movement waned over time, Chanology remains an iconic example of organized resistance born from the internet.Marked for deletion (Old)
we should do something similar but for the UN since theyre trying to take our lolis (and shotas) away
Project Heyurilogy: We throw our cum jars and piss bottles at lobbyists and politicians who want to ban loli hentai
heyuri should do something like this against localizers
>>127202This, have you seen the Fire Emblem Engage localization? Dreadful. They censored all romances that had teenagers in them, and I'm talking about almost-adult teens. And then when someone made a translation mod, all mod sites banned it for illegal content [even though it's literally just the translation of the original japanese game that is sold in Japan no problem ]
we could unite all of heyuri and play trolls
>>127201Sounds like a plan!
>>127197Chanology was cancerIt turned 4chan into politics obsessed srs bsns
>>127197This reads like my college political essay on the subject. I can't believe I wrote that shit
>>127214The more I think about it the more I feel like they were simply caught up in the zeitgeist. In hindsight, 2008 was a pivotal year for the politicization of the internet. Around the same time the Chanology protests were happening there were protests in Colombia against a local militia which started with a group on Facebook, There were also early minor protests fuelled by Facebook and Twitter in Egypt which would eventually lead to the Arab Spring, and 'candlelight protests' in Korea against the lifting of a ban on US meat, where, thanks to the influence of the Internet, school age girls were among the first to protest, and thus became a symbol of the movement.2008 is also when divisive rhetoric kicked in in the West. People talk about how Trump made people crazy, but Obama made people crazy before that. On the one hand there was his personality cult who wouldn't countenance any criticism of him, and figured you were racist for doing so, and on the other hand there was the (admittedly small) violent opposition who were actually racist and believed he was a Muslim spy or whatever. I was on a number of small forums at this time, and the first political debates that made me want to tap out of politics were scuffles over Obama.
>>127241and in 2007 a device was invented that gives internet access to creatures not intelligent enough to use a computer.
>>127241Don't forget also, a lot of this web-born activism was not truly organic. If I recall correctly, Twitter was used by democrat politicians for the 2008 elections, for instance; obviously they understood the power of normalfag SMS.