Church0fScientology

Church0fScientology is a YouTube channel run by the hacker group . It was created in response to the official Scientology YouTube channel for taking its video of an interview with fellow Scientologist and actor Tom Cruise down. It had also started a protest movement called which were against the practices of the Church of Scientology.
==History==
On January 14, 2008, a video created by the Church of Scientology was posted on YouTube featuring Tom Cruise talking about various Scientology topics including "Keeping Scientology Working".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFBZ_uAbxS0 This is not the official video but a reupload It was later removed in an effort to remove material. The video's removal resulted in the formation of Project Chanology by 711chan.org, 4chan, partyvan.info wiki, and several Internet Relay Chat channels, all a part of Anonymous.
Project Chanology began its campaign by organizing and delivering a series of DoS attacks against Scientology websites and flooding Scientology centers with prank calls and black faxes.https://web.archive.org/web/20080128185211/http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,23107452-5014239,00.html
On January 21, 2008, the channel uploaded Message to Scientology where they announced they would "expel the church from the Internet".
There have been several online methods to further expose Scientology as a dangerous cult. A Google bomb technique had been used to make the Scientology.org main website the first result in a Google search for "dangerous cult". Anonymous had also tried to bump Scientology up as the first result in Google searches for "brainwashing cult", and to make the Xenu.net website first result in searches for "scientology".
==Protests==
A video called "Call to Action" was uploaded by the channel on January 28, 2008, calling for protests outside Church of Scientology centers on February 10, 2008.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrkchXCzY70&t=1s On that day, about 7,000 people protested in at least 100 cities worldwide. Within 24 hours of the first protest, a search for "Scientology" and "protest" on Google Blog Search returned more than 4,000 results and more than 2,000 pictures on Flickr.
===Response===
The Church of Scientology released a statement regarding the February 10, 2008 worldwide protests. In it, they called the organizers of the protests "cyberterrorists", also referring to the actions of members of Project Chanology as "hate crimes" and "religious bigotry", and in a media release said that the group is guided by Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf, although an organizer of the protest responded to the latter allegation by stating: "I don't know where they got that from, but I don't think that's true considering that I am a capitalist and a Jew". Pat Harney, spokeswoman for the Church of Scientology in Clearwater, Florida told the St. Petersburg Times: "We are dealing with a worldwide threat ... This is not a light matter."
==Channel==
The channel was created on January 21, 2008, and the first video was uploaded on the same day.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCbKv9yiLiQ The channel uploaded "warning" videos towards the Church of Scientology. The channel gained notability during Project Chanology, especially the "Message to Scientology" video.
==References==
Category:News YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2008