Editing Scientology controversies (section)

===Free Zone suppression===

The Church has taken steps to suppress the [[Free Zone (Scientology)|Free Zone]], the term for a variety of groups and individuals who practice Scientology outside the strictures of the Church of Scientology proper, and shut down dissenters when possible. The CoS has used [[copyright]] and [[trademark]] laws to attack various Free Zone groups.<ref name=":1" /> Accordingly, the Free Zone avoids the use of officially trademarked Scientology words, including 'Scientology' itself. In 2000, the [[Religious Technology Center]] unsuccessfully attempted to gain control over the web domain scientologie.org in a legal action against the Free Zone.<ref name="wipo">{{Cite web |url=https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisions/html/2000/d2000-0410.html |title=Administrative Panel Decision, Religious Technology Center v. Freie Zone E. V, Case No. D2000-0410 |website=[[WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center]] |date=June 23, 2000}}</ref> ''[[Skeptic (U.S. magazine)|Skeptic Magazine]]'' described the Free Zone as: "...a group founded by ex-Scientologists to promote L. Ron Hubbard's ideas independent of the COS [Church of Scientology]."<ref name="scnvinternet">{{cite magazine |title=Scientology v. the Internet |first1=Jim |last1=Lippard |author1-link=Jim Lippard |first2=Jeff |last2=Jacobsen |magazine=[[Skeptic (American magazine)|Skeptic]] |volume=3 |issue=3 |year=1995 |url=https://www.skeptic.com/magazine/archives/3.3/ |pages=35–41 |url-access=subscription |access-date=September 22, 2023 |archive-date=September 29, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230929003433/https://www.skeptic.com/magazine/archives/3.3/ |url-status=live }} {{cite web |url=https://www.discord.org/lippard/skeptic/03.3.jl-jj-scientology.html |title=Authorized copy <!--link is to an authorized copy by author of article on his own website--> |website=[[Jim Lippard|discord.org]] |access-date=September 22, 2023 |archive-date=September 29, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230929003434/https://www.discord.org/lippard/skeptic/03.3.jl-jj-scientology.html |url-status=live }}</ref> A ''[[Miami Herald]]'' article wrote that ex-Scientologists joined the Free Zone because they felt that Church of Scientology leadership had: "...strayed from Hubbard's original teachings."<ref>{{cite news |last=Alter |first=Alexandra |title=Scientology: What's behind the Hollywood hype? |work=[[Miami Herald]] |date=2005-07-02 |pages=8E |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/652246733/?terms=free%20zone&match=1 |via=newspapers.com |quote=Some followers of Scientology say the church leadership has strayed from Hubbard's original teachings. Many belong to the Free Zone, a group of Scientologists who believe in the religion's practices but not the organization. |archive-date=May 19, 2024 |access-date=April 20, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240519121637/https://www.newspapers.com/image/652246733/?terms=free%20zone&match=1 |url-status=live }}</ref> One Free Zone Scientologist identified as "Safe" was quoted in ''[[Salon.com|Salon]]'' as saying: "The Church of Scientology does not want its control over its members to be found out by the public and it doesn't want its members to know that they can get scientology outside of the Church of Scientology."<ref name="salon">{{cite news
 |last=Brown
 |first=Janelle
 |title=Copyright—or wrong? : The Church of Scientology takes up a new weapon—the Digital Millennium Copyright Act—in its ongoing battle with critics.
 |work=[[Salon.com|Salon]]
 |date=1999-07-22
 |url=http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/1999/07/22/scientology/print.html
 |url-status=dead
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090626222533/http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/1999/07/22/scientology/print.html
 |archive-date=2009-06-26
}}
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