Church of Scientology banned from Wikipedia

leftlegmoderate · Jun 24, 2012

Wikipedia has banned the Church of Scientology from editing any articles. Its a punishment for repeated and deceptive editing of articles related to the controversial religion. The landmark ruling comes from the inner circle of a site that prides itself on being open and inclusive.

In a 10-1 ruling Thursday, the sites arbitration council voted to ban users coming from all IP addresses owned by the Church of Scientology and its associates, and further banned a number of editors by name. The story was first reported by The Register.
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I only wish the article would have mentioned the specific edits, it'd probably have been worth a good chuckle.

FactChecker · Jun 25, 2012

This post has the reasoning and conclusions. It includes testimony.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Scientology

This is the evidence presented.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Scientology/Evidence

waltky · Feb 9, 2013

Scientologists 'Coerced Into Having Abortions'...

Church Of Scientology Forced Women Into Abortions, Abuse, Manual Labor
2/07/2013 - Former Scientologist Jenna Miscavige Hill joined HuffPost Live Thursday to share her personal story of growing up in the church and to explain how she escaped from it.

Hill, the niece of church leader David Miscavige and author of Beyond Belief, told HuffPost Live host Ahmed Shihab-Eldin about the oppressive practices of the church, which include forced abortion and abuse. "If you do become pregnant when you're there, you get kicked out," she said. "Or many of my friends were actually coerced into having abortions."

Hill also described tales of forced labor and abusive teachers, and said she knew she had to leave the church after being exposed to the outside world on a mission trip abroad.

"When we went back to LA after that mission, it was like, everything was in plain view," she said. "Back to fifteen minute meals, you can't go to bed before 1:00 AM, you have to stay up all night even though you did yesterday...It put a lot of things in plain sight. There was no denying it. They started taking away your phones, your internet access...that was a big turning point for me."

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