Akkam’s Razor

I’m not sure what the tipping point event was, but the entirety of the internets has declared War on Scientology.

My guess is that Scientology, as is their usual heavy-handed (including the US Government in Operation Snow White) , litigation-prone, cease-and-desist method, rapidly compelled several internet outlets to pull the creepy Tom Cruise internet video (which, as is always the case with these censorship moments, only makes the subject more desired and more easily available). Currently the entire movie is available in several formats and as a bittorent on the Pirate Bay.

Here’s the short trip to crazyland:

• The Raw Story | NY Times: Bush signs landmark executive order increasing power over federal agencies
  “[I]n an executive order published last week in the Federal Register, Bush said that each federal agency must have a regulatory policy office run by a political appointee” who will monitor the creation of process and procedures and the associated document
  (tags: georgebush nannystate executiveorder constitutionalcrisis separationofpowers)
• Disney claims ownership of fairy-tales in the public domain.
  “It would be understandable for Disney to try and protect its interpretations of existing characters, but its application for so-called “word marks” implies something much more than that: it implies exclusive rights to use all those characters.”
  (tags: fiction fairuse fairytales)