Operation Party Hard Ten Years later

“Operation Party Hard” celebrated the birthday of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard with protests at Church outposts across the world. In New York close to 300 people did their best to hide their faces from Scientology’s cameras to air their grievances with the Church, though Anons assured the handful of reporters in attendance that over 9,000 others were attending similar events around the world. Protests began in Australia on March 15, 2008, and were followed by protests in major cities worldwide including Brussels, London, Seattle, Phoenix, Manchester, and Los Angeles.

Originally, Anonymous was a loosely connected group of similar-minded people from all over the world who networked online. Anonymous has no leaders, and for the most part, anyone can join Anonymous. Members of Anonymous keep their personal information and real names hidden from the public view and typically from each other. that helps to support the decentralized framework of the group.

The Church of Scientology, founded in 1953 by L. Ron Hubbard.


There are a number of disputes concerning the Church of Scientology's attempts to suppress material critical of Scientology on the Internet, utilizing lawsuits and legal threats.

• In 1996 it sued Internet service provider Netcom over copyrighted texts posted to the newsgroup alt.religion.scientology. The case was settled out of court for an undisclosed amount. 
• The Church of Scientology sued a Karin Spaink and her Internet Service Provider over posting what church called unpublished trade secrets. In 2003 the court decided in favor of Spaink and the internet service providers on all points.
• In 1998 Scientology sued FACTNet for claimed copyright violations. Their request was denied when a federal judge challenged Scientology's ownership of the copyrights of the documents. A settlement was reached in 1999.
• In 2002 The Church of Scientology used the DMCA to force the Google search engine to erase its entries on the controversial anti-Scientology Web site Operation Clambake.
• In 2008 Wikileaks published a 612-page Scientology manual on the eight Operating Thetan levels, considered secret by the Church of Scientology.
• They attempted to remove a video from a highly publicized interview with Scientologist Tom Cruise from the Internet. YouTube removed the Cruise video from their site under threat of litigation.The website Gawker.com did not take down their copy of the Tom Cruise video.