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Right to repair’s unlikely new adversary: Scientologists (arstechnica.com)
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[–] Moonguide@lemmy.ml 48 points 2 years ago (21 children)

What have they to gain from advocating against it?

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website 126 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (11 children)

As to why a Scientology-owned group would care about such a matter, 404 Media suggested that it could have to do with Scientology E-meters, or electropsychometers. The Church of Scientology describes the machines as an "electronic instrument that measures mental state and change of state in individuals and assists the precision and speed of auditing" and that only a Scientology minister or training minister should use. 404 Media noted that some people collect the devices and, oddly enough, you can find E-Meters sold on eBay.

"My hunch is that the Scientologists think granting the hacking community permission to dig into their E-Meter software will expose the whole operation as snake oil. The request is like so many other anti-Right to Repair arguments: Manufacturers are afraid that access to repair materials will expose some of their other dirty secrets," Chamberlain said.

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 61 points 2 years ago (10 children)

But isn’t their whole operation snake oil? Aliens crashing into a volcano and possessing humans is pretty dumb.

[–] saplyng@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wait, their thing is alien volcano ghosts?

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yes, a long time ago an evil alien enslaved people and crashed into a volcano on Earth where they became ghosts and possessed the primitive humans living there. South Park has a good explanation of this lunacy

[–] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago

I've always wondered if the "THIS IS REAL SCIENTOLOGIST BELIEF" ticker was something planned early on, or if there was a moment of taking the whole thing in and someone went "This is fuckin' South Park. Everyone is going to think we're being extreme. We need to clarify."

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