FC: Scientology's domain name cybersquatting, and payback

From: Declan McCullagh (declanat_private)
Date: Tue Mar 11 2003 - 07:31:33 PST

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    From: Dave_Touretzkyat_private
    To: declanat_private
    Subject: Scientology cybersquatting: chance for payback
    Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 19:47:04 -0500
    
    Declan,
    
    Politech readers will appreciate this story on ScientologyWatch.org
    about how CCHR, the Citizen's Commission on Human Rights, engages in
    domain name hijacking.  CCHR is one of the Scientology cult's more
    obnoxious front organizations; they're basically a hate group
    targeting the mental health professions.  See www.cchr.org for
    examples of their lurid propaganda.  They grabbed wfmh.net in an
    attempt to poach surfers looking for the World Federation for Mental
    Health (wfmh.org).
    
    Now there's a chance for payback: ScientologyWatch.org reports that
    the domain cchr.ca is presently unclaimed!  Who will be the lucky
    purchaser of this domain?  We'll have to wait and see!
    
       http://tinyurl.com/785m
    
    -- Dave Touretzky
    
    
    
    
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