Scientology Attacked Anonymous And Immediately Regretted it 

I've learned some things about Anonymous at security classes; some of them do some very good work for people, and often for very little in return. And frankly, exposing scientology for the cult they are, that was good work.

I’m with anyone who is against Scientology I lost my younger sister to that damn cult !!

I would be happy if they never stopped going after cult of scientology and shut them down forever.

Wonder if Scientology cult members will ever realize the founder wrote science fiction for a living.

Human Trafficking and breaking up families is still a big problem In Scientology.

I remember reading the document dump from Anonymous on scientology and felt so disgusting. They did good work back then.

It's funny when people say they have the best lawyers and can't be defeated, when Anonymous works outside the boundaries of the law.

I have a lot of respect for Anonymous. Regardless of its origins or whatever “internal” conflict’s it may (or may not) have had, for a non-profit group, it’s done a lot more than most. They also find out and call out many people, problems and situations NO ONE else can or will.

Im Sorry for people who are trapped inside this Scientology cult

Quick pro tip; pissing off one of the largest and most infamous hacker groups in the world at the time isn’t a very good idea.

Reality: Hey guys! Wouldn't it be fun to fuck with Scientology? News media: Dangerous super hackers are spreading mayhem all over the internet.

Anonymous has always fascinated me for some reason. I love watching videos about them. Thanks for your hard work as always Kira!

I went to dozens of irl protests in San Francisco in front of the org. Some of the most fun I’ve ever had in that city. And I made life long friends with a number of fellow anon, and also saved one person from the cult (who later joined our ranks). Funnier still was that I had no idea what 4chan was at the time. I just knew enough about Scientology that it was a worthy cause. Don’t care if it feels cringe now, I’m still very proud that we saved one man from sinking the rest of his life into walking “the bridge”.

The importance of white hat hackers is higher now than ever before... wish them all the luck possible and that their ranks grow...

"Anonymous has decided that your organization should be destroyed." Well shit....

Honestly, in my opinion, we as a society need groups like anonymous. If they get together to go after some one or another group, what made them do so? Yes the group isn’t clean or white knights but sometimes you need that dark knight to do the job that no one else will or could

Who's going to tell these big companies that anonymous is just literally everyone else?

I stand with Anonymous on this 1 as well as most issues👍Keep up the good work through revealing the truth and exposing the real evils out there

1 year in prison and $20,000 fine for doing DDOS? Wow, that’s corrupt. It’s a cult website. Nobody should go to prison for that. Maybe house arrest without devices at worst. I hope that guy learned to be a better hacker in prison.

Scientology still stalks my parents even though have been dead for several years. My parents met at a scientology event, but were told they couldn't get married because my mother was older than my step father. Both left the origination but were stalked with request for fees and payment for more than 20 years. Still this day, with both of my parents gone I receive money requests for money

The craziest thing about Scientology is their creator was a failed sci-fi writer but they didn't think his whole religion was a sham

Attacking 4chan or Anonymous is like punching the ocean. It doesn't get you anywhere.

Hopefully one day they can return and make even bigger impacts on those greedy and exploitating.

It just kinda shows you that you don't really want to piss off a group of people who basically unlimited amount of free time and internet knowledge 😂

I remember I was an assistant civil engineer on the Waters edge complex .... which is one block south one block west of the Scientology building in downtown Clearwater... If you've ever been to Clearwater, in order to get to Clearwater Beach, there's a road called alternate 19... and there are a slew of small motels up and down this particular stretch of highway from Curlew Road south to State Road 60.... over the years the church of Scientology has picked up these hotels, and I'm assuming when you become a member you move in to one of the hotels that's furthest away and as you work your way up, you move closer and closer to the main Scientology building.... Which if you have ever commuted early in the morning driving down, alternate 19 you'll see a ton of individuals dressed exactly the same black shoes, black pants, white shirt, black tie... working way further south... The Scientology building is only religious building that I can recall that has armed guards on patrol ... and this is prior to 2008... I was working on that building in 2006... I remember that day with all those people that were down in Clearwater.... to be honest, I thought it was a convention like comicon or something like that.... It's crazy to think that on that day, I witness history being made

We do not forgive, we do not forget. Except us. Best quote of the century

its so facinating to me what people are willing to do if they know they are 100% anonymous people behave only because of consequences and being judged by others but watch a protest with thousand people all dressed in black, all of them are suddently a billion times more courageous, numbers and anonymity does that. and its incredible and horrifying at the same time.

How can you stop an anon who keeps his online fingerprint close to none . You can't

With the illegal treatment by governments to people of integrity like Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, and Chelsea Manning, entities existing under the blanket of anonymity are in many ways, essential.

From what little I've seen of Anonymous, it appears that they really are a force for good!

"We are many, we are legion."

The mask is NOT the “V for Vendetta” mask. It’s a Guy Fawkes mask. You know, the reason for the British poem that started, “Remember, remember, the fifth of November…”

The irony of the "V" mask...L.Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, and Alan Moore, the author of "V" for Vendetta, were both disciples of Alester Crowley.

My god, the spiffing brit was the true power behind anonymous. I never suspected, but its obvious now

11:26 So glad to see Brave Agent Pubeit still is not forgotten. Nevar forget!

Damn, I see spiffin brit is still managing the shadow cabal. Good on him.

Oh the money cult....

I remember an original anonymous in 2012 2013 when he was supposedly arrested by the feds but his real name never came out. Very odd. Probably got a deal to work for the feds rather than prison.

I feel scientology needs some 'lulz' check if they plan to bully every lobbyist out of fighting for right to repair

Thanks for the great documentary! I think you're getting better and better at this and you already were one of my fav documentary creators!

I owe them a debt of gratitude for what they did. Miscavidge is in hiding from the roll on that they did

I got excited. I thought they was back. Hopefully we see them again soon

Anonymous should find Shelly Miscavige.

Anonymous has my respect 👊🏼

At one point 2/3 of the my friends were people I'd met through the Chanology protests. A few of us kept them up monthly for 3 years. I went on holiday to a city I'd never been to before, thousands of km away, and randomly ran into a bunch of anons who were handing out flyers. We all spontaneously decided to move from the city to the street outside the local Scientology building. I wasn't there 5 minutes before a Scientology guy in a suit came out and greeted me by name lol. These days their main tactic is to use their front organisations to recruit vulnerable people because we ruined their reputation so thoroughly. So they try putting brochures in all the nearby shops for their "Drug Free World" front which just funnels addicts to their Narconon front.

Using the thumbnail image as the intro animation looked clean! Enjoying the vid. Cheers!

I appreciate that you always make videos on unique topics. Not just recycling the same topics popular at the time.

heck yeah. I went to some project chanology stuff! My organizer was a real nice dude, he rented a UHAUL to unload us all in front of the philly building (so they wouldn't see our license plates, edited to explain that, since people might not get why that was a thing) and bought masks for everyone. My parents still got threatening letters though, p sure we had a plant, they were really persistent about getting into our IRC chats and sneaking into social connections. Those old music videos of the protests using Still Alive are so corny but they get me all up in my feelings, it's the last time 4chan felt like fun.

You have to keep making more Anonymous content, the way you document the group is way too entertaining. Keep it up 👍

Your documentairies are top-notch quality my man. I know you wanted to concentrate more on this type of quality content. And hell yes, you were so right with that. Whenever I see a new post of yours (Ring that bell folks!), I KNOW it will be a well-wrought piece of well-documented and researched piece of, well, journalism. And looking really great to boot. Thanks for the great work!

This feels like the beginning of a series on Anonymous.

Join the Resistance

Damn, the Spiffing Brit is the mastermind of Anonymous?

The message is, don't mess with Anonymous, you will rue the day. that you did.

So many things done by them have really been for the good. I remember when this happened and reading it.. It's just wow..

There was a rumor going around Hollywood back in the early 2000s and late 90s that Tom Cruise was gay or at least Bi- because they were some rumors about him and Val Kilmer hooking up during Top Gun. So it wouldn't surprise me if they probably used that to blackmail him into being their pet.

Was not terrorist, was a war on evil. Many of them are fighting for those no one else does.

I love the amount of research and detail you go into, another great doc - cheers

They need to get back on the job as it’s still going! It’s a cult and needs to be shut down!

Only 30s in but damn the memories. I remember watching the first clip when it was released and following this for a while as it went on.

You gotta follow up on this mate. I'm on the edge of my seat.

They were a good group with a positive impact back in the day

Wiat, what does the Spiffing Brit got to do with Anonymous ?!! Was it him all along?! It figures...

Just did a massive dab opened RU-vid an saw this was posted 58 minutes ago. What a time to be Alice

at 8:54 I spit out my milk, I was like "bro how you get our logs???" Again, great video Kira! Between chanology and Lulzsec there was a whole bunch of other Ops that grew Anonymous into a MOVEMENT, the first Op Iran being one of them, it's where the playbook to Anon Ops was really hammered into shape, replicated even today in other Ops. We got "blessings" from The Pirate Bay for Iran Ops when they changed their banner logo to bring attention to the cause, calling it "The Persian Bay." The conspiracies that spun from that gave us a good laugh when people claimed the TPB was in FULL CONTROL of Anonymous; we let them run with it for the lulz! The first Op Iran was the defacto op that really shifted Anon to take up more political causes involving injustices! There is a lot to skim in a few minutes but thank you for giving our stories a spotlight; too many people want to begin in 2011 / 2012 but for us in the trenches it was all 2008!

Scientology has never regretted anything. It's not on their play book.

This series is GOLDEN love your work kira!

haven’t watched yet, liked and commented. Seeing a human trafficking, undemocratic and totalitarian cult (in my personal, private opinion, based on publicly available information, protected under free speech) getting sh*t and more bad attention is a good thing…

Oh man, I remember this. Fun times, watching this unfold almost before my eyes. How ironic that another section of the same imageboard would help bring a certain orange man to the White House...

I wish they would expose our traitors in government.

Trippy, I had just watched a video that was someone interviewing one of the guys who started the real hacker side of stuff for them. How he looked like an old hippy bum, etc. Dude was seeking political asylum in Mexico now, and got accepted for it. Feels like some fever dream I'm witnessing... listening to that video and then finding this one a couple days later @.@

TV News corporations to this day have still no idea about how technology and the internet actually works. It is sad.

Ive watched a few videos about this but i always love your in depth work

seeing loic (low orbit ion cannon) brings back memories man.

Dear Annonymous, kindly hand all financial institutions that manipulate the stock market. Comex pimbex etc.

we need them to return but they probably already are and we don't know it yet.

Calling Anonymous "shadowy organization" is loltastic

Great video Thanks

me and my mates went into a scientology church years ago for a laugh and 2 of my mates went up the stairs to a floor and saw a man in hospital clothes walking round with people running down after him whilst screaming to them they cant be here we also found some really wierd dvds and videos that they would play which looking back are just scientology properganda and then they asked us to do a personality test witch we couldnt be fucked to finish so we told them we have to leave and they went a bit weird with us and said okay were gonna grab someone fast and a man in a suit came down and started asking us why we want to leave so fast etc we still ended up leaving but there was a group of about 6-7 of them at the door just watching us leave all the way untill the church was out of site the church was in the outerparts of birmigham in england was genually one of the oddest experiences of my life and the whole group who went agrees

And then they contacted their friends and family in government *and the government crushed anonymous* And any that aren't in prison aren't allowed to even have a data CD... because if they are caught touching ANYTHING that could do with computers at all they will go to prison.

One day we will have to refer to them as "they who should not be named"

The parallels between "old" Anonymous and current-day antifa probably aren't a coincidence. Interestingly, neither is the complete 180 regarding media coverage and authority opinion regarding antifa groups. I wonder why that is... I'm sure it's nothing...

Tremendous videos, these are very addictive and really well produced. It's amazing how something with some clout like this sprouted out of 4chan of all places.

Kira is very good at covering these topics. I always look forward to seeing these full documentaries.

What can you say other that MONEY AND POWER is the purpose of this cult.

LulzSec both did a lot of good and a lot of harm. Among the good they did, was leaking lots and lots of evil from both major corporations and national entities alike, which even reverberates to this day in the growing disdain for big corporations and politicians constant games that completely disregard the wishes of their populations.

I was glad to participate in one of those protests back in 08!

Was waiting for this video, I knew you will make it. Please more of anonymous stories.

I wish Anonymous would take on Hellyweird.

Going to Forbidden Planet and buying a v for vendetta mask so I could go slap my ass at a church in London was such a vibe

Anonymous was very concerned about Iggy Azalea.

Who know maybe even he himself is part of "Anonymous", would be pretty op if it's true.

No one should screw with Anonymous

Is Anonymous still around?

Is anonymous now solely commercial otherwise why haven't their members freed Julian Assange 😮😮😮😮😮😮

What people don't realize is that there are a number of hacker groups around the world who are independent of each other but all still kind of fly that flag of anonymous and they all have methods of communicating and working together when it suits the individual groups. This works in the benefit of the hackers because if everyone from multiple groups is claiming themselves as Anonymous then it kind of protects your parent group from exposure. These groups have worked together numerous times for a variety of different things like as the video showed hunting Isis as well as more notably a massive campaign Against Child predators which was widely successful and inevitably resulted in a ton of arrests and the shutdown of at least a few child trafficking Networks even though it is unfortunately still just a drop in the bucket and these groups do still work together from time to time but they are far less public about their operations because there were a few that went South because of that problem that was explained where everybody and anybody can claim to be anonymous and what kept happening was that people who were not joining to see it succeed or causing operations to fail which at the same time strengthen the connection of the hacker collectives to work together and sort of remove the need for outside help or interference. They have done a ton of different operations under the banner of anonymous that you will probably never hear about

This is why I love the internet

I absolutely agree with everything you said. It’s sad (but not too sad) but true (so very true). I always saw the world very much thru the lens of predator/prey, like people are fundamentally wolves OR they are fundamentally sheep (or tigers and squirrels if you prefer). At some point in my teens I extended this metaphor to include an archetype that protected & preserved other creatures rather than exploit and consume them, a character-type analogous to a shepherd. After my first kid was born, it dawned on me that there are not altruistic shepherds-that’s actually one of those like jumbo shrimp. Or maybe it’s more like the old Hollywood trope about the hooker with a heart of gold, or the maverick politician running for office- they’re a myth, they never existed, like Andy Griffith’s America. See, shepherd is a job not a core character in your life’s play, and certainly not any actual person you’ve ever known. People are too dynamic for such a flat ideal to be applicable. Worst yet, the only reason anyone has ever spent weeks in the wild keeping 1 eye on dozens of animals, and the other eye on dozens of other animals (for very different reasons) is so they can feed on the animals under their care in a slower way, more like a leech, so you don’t eat it all up and have to keep hunting over and over. A sheep that can’t be sheared or milked, is dinner. So shepherds are actually just the greediest wolves of all. I lived for 15+ years under this flawed premise that the shitty world was what caused good people to turn shitty eventually. But now I have a pretty good idea that it’s all the shitty people that make the world so incredibly shitty, they literally blot out the less shitty people like an eclipse ( like a cosmic double whammy of shitty causality inevitably concluding in shitty effects that ripple thru space/time like throwing an existential rock into the open sewer that is our reality. It’s been a decade since I cut ties with everyone but the 3 friends I felt I still had. Within 3 years of that 2 of the last 3 had died. In a very real way all friendships are destined to end the same way- 1 friend dying and the other living long enuff to see their 1 constant abandon them, arguably when they’re most needed, to continue living the only way anyone can after such a loss: by carrying on best we can, by surviving which literally means barely living thru something. Believe me being alive is hardly living. It’s more like “livin” (in that it’s not quite “living”). But I digress. All I wanted to say really was you’re not alone, and thanks for the truth.

Anonymous is still very much alive. The mission is more important now, and lulling those to sleep who may go after them gives them an edge

I hope Anonymous comes back and bigger then ever before. We need them. They have done a lot of good work and punishing the corrupt.