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Right to repair’s unlikely new adversary: Scientologists (arstechnica.com)
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[–] DaCookeyMonsta@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That wasn't always public knowledge. It was a thing you only learned about later on when you were more indoctrinated. Then undercover reporters found out and South Park made it very public.

[–] fubo@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It was mostly publicized via Usenet by Arnaldo Lerma, Dennis Erlich, Karin Spaink, David Touretzky, and other activists and ex-Scientologists starting in the early 1990s. The South Park episode didn't come out until over ten years later in 2005.