David S. Touretzky discusses Scientology, Anonymous and Tom Cruise

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In an interview with Wikinews reporter Nicholas Turnbull, prominent free speech activist and critic of Scientology David S. Touretzky gave his opinion on the recent backlash against the Church of Scientology that has erupted on the Internet, recently spurred on in declarations by a nebulous Internet entity using the name Anonymous that the organization will be destroyed. Anonymous has directed recent protests at Scientology centres across the world, which have attracted significant numbers of individuals supporting the cause.

Touretzky, a research professor in artificial intelligence and computational neuroscience at Carnegie Mellon University, has been a prominent critic of the Church of Scientology since mid-1995, and has been protesting against Scientology vociferously since then; he has also run websites that publish material that Scientology wishes to keep suppressed from the public eye, such as extracts from Scientology's formerly-confidential Operating Thetan (OT) materials. Touretzky views the actions of the Church of Scientology as being "a threat to free speech", and has endured harassment by the Church of Scientology for his activities.

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