What have they to gain from advocating against it?
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.
But isn’t their whole operation snake oil? Aliens crashing into a volcano and possessing humans is pretty dumb.
Gotta give them points for snake oil creativity though. Their nonsense is much more entertaining than hearing “invisible sky wizard did it” as the answer to every question for millennia.
They don’t lead with that and only reveal it when you are in deep enough to not recognize the sunk cost fallacy.
Wait, their thing is alien volcano ghosts?
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
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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Yeah. But in a world where JFK is coming back or something, a volcano cult isn’t like stand-out crazy anymore.
Correct, but they want to keep plausible deniability.
Nobody finds out their religious contraption doesn’t do anything and/or explains to other Scientologists what it actually does
It’s a Wheatstone bridge, a very well-known circuit that’s used to measure resistance very accurately. That’s about it. You can slap one together at home very easily. There’s nothing special in this device that would even benefit from right to repair, any halfway decent engineer or hobbyist can figure it out. It’s like wanting to repair a desk lamp, you don’t need schematics or data sheets to do that.
While they are still essentially measuring galvanic skin response, modern ones have a lot more going on internally.
TIL that I learned about Scientology in EE classes lol
Make it harder for the free Scientology groups to operate. The groups offering the same services for free and without the accuser and they use second hand e-meters.
It’s the methadone to the CoCs opium and the church doesn’t like it.
