The gist of the story is that the Church of Scientology is in crisis mode over the big dumb celebrity scandal of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes breaking up. They allegedly broke up, in part, because of Holmes' increasing wariness about Cruise's devotion to the Church of Scientology, and his plans to send their 5 year old daughter Suri to some freaky scientology boot camp summer camp.
Okay, enough of that TMZ crap. Well, the Scientology folks aren't taking too kindly to the negative press they're receiving as of late. From Yahoo News:
The message instructs followers to visit media sites, including Microsoft, Google or any other that requires users to agree to a code of conduct that prohibits comments that threaten, defame or degrade any group or individuals.
Followers should hunt for any comments about the Cruise-Holmes divorce, click the "Report" tag, and report the comments as violations of the site's code of conduct, the email instructs.
You can write something like "Violate Your Code of Conduct". 'defames or degrades a group for any reason including on the basis of religion.'
The author of the email notes that if only one person does it, the news site moderators won't act. Thus, the email says, "if you start to have 10 or 20 people reporting it, they are going to take this down."
Oh, okay. So if I were to say that Scientology made no sense, they would try to report me.
Or if I posted this video from South Park explaining what Scientologists actually believe...
...they would try to report me.
Or if I said that it seemed cultlike, they would try to report me.
Or if I said my thetan levels were through the roof and obviously I'm the next L Ron Hubbard, they would try to report me.
Good luck scrubbing the internet of comments that try to tarnish your super-stellar persona, guys. We'll totally stop talking about you.
[Updated at 306PM to correct a typo]