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{{short description|German software developer and critic of Scientology}}
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'''Tilman Hausherr''' is a German citizen living in ], ]. Hausherr is well known among ] for ] and for maintaining a ] critical of ]. Hausherr is also the author of a software utility, ], which was praised in a 2002 '']'' article covering 70 ] utilities.<ref>"70 assists for a winning site.(WEB BUILDER'S TOOLKIT)", '']'', April 23, 2002.</ref>
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'''Tilman Hausherr''' is a German citizen living in ], Germany. He is a software developer and the author of the software ], but he is best known for his criticism of ].


== Coined "Sporgery" ==
He has been described as a "critic of Scientology"<ref>*{{cite journal
{{Main|Sporgery}}
| last=Kent
Hausherr is credited with coining the term "]" in the ] ] '']'', to which he is a regular contributor.<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926222106/http://www.g4tv.com/techtvvault/features/10675/Attack_of_the_Robotic_Poets_pg2.html |date=2007-09-26 }}, '']'', by ], May 06, 1999.</ref><ref name="Højsgaard">{{cite book
| first=Stephen A.
| last = Højsgaard
| title=Scientology and the European Human Rights Debate: A Reply to Leisa Goodman, J. Gordon Melton, and the European Rehabilitation Project Force Study
| first = Morten T.
| journal=Marburg Journal of Religion
|author2=Margit Warburg
| volume=8
| title = Religion and Cyberspace
| issue=1
| publisher = Routledge
| year=2003
| month=September | year = 2005
| isbn = 0-415-35767-5
| url=http://web.uni-marburg.de/religionswissenschaft/journal/mjr/kent3.html
| page = 111}}
}}</ref>, an "anti cult-figure"<ref>*{{cite journal
</ref> "Sporgery" refers to internet attacks that not only spam a forum with offensive posts but also misrepresent regular users by forging their names to the spam posts. The term is a blending of the words "]" and "]".<ref name="Højsgaard" /><ref>{{cite news | first = Daniel | last = Rutter | title = Gibbering clones the future of Usenet? | url = http://www.dansdata.com/sporge.htm | format = Reprint with annotation | publisher = Australian IT | date = 1999-09-16 | accessdate = 2007-03-16}}</ref>
| first=Hexham

| last=Irving
== Website ==
| coauthors=Karla Poewe
Hausherr's website contains a large section critical of Scientology, including the "Scientology celebrities FAQ", as well as the "FAQ: Scientology in Germany" (2001).<ref>{{cite journal|last=Kent|first=Stephen|author-link=Stephen A. Kent|date=September 2003|title=Scientology and the European Human Rights Debate: A Reply to Leisa Goodman, J. Gordon Melton, and the European Rehabilitation Project Force Study |journal=]|publisher=]|volume=8|issue=1|url=https://archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de/ep/0004/article/view/3725 |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060629063543/http://web.uni-marburg.de/religionswissenschaft/journal/mjr/kent3.html|archive-date=June 29, 2006 |doi=10.17192/mjr.2003.8.3725}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal
| title=“Verfassungsfeindlich”: Church, State, And New Religions In Germany
| first=Irving
| last=Hexham
|author2=Karla Poewe
| title="Verfassungsfeindlich": Church, State, And New Religions In Germany
| journal=Nova Religio | journal=Nova Religio
| volume=2 | volume=2
| issue=2 | issue=2
| year=1999 | month=April | pages=208-227 |date=April 1999 | pages=208–227
| url=http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~nurelweb/papers/irving/Verfas.htm | url=http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~nurelweb/papers/irving/Verfas.htm
| doi=10.1525/nr.1999.2.2.208
}}</ref>, and an "anti-cultist" <ref>*{{cite journal
}}<br />Hudson, David., , '']'', February 25, 1997</ref> He has also contributed updates on the activities of the Church of Scientology to the magazine ''Berliner Dialog'', published until 2005 by the ] Dialog Zentrum Berlin e.V.<ref></ref> Hausherr was quoted in ''Religion Online'' as stating on his Web site: "Scientology is evil; its techniques evil; its practice a serious threat to the community, medically, morally and socially."<ref>{{cite book
| last=Cowan
| first=Douglas E. | last = Dawson
| first = Lorne L.
| title=Cult Apology: A Modest (Typological) Proposal
| author-link = Lorne L. Dawson
| booktitle=Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Conference "Boundaries and Commitments in NRM Research"
|author2=Douglas E. Cowan
| year=2002
|author2-link=Douglas E. Cowan
| url=http://c.faculty.umkc.edu/cowande/sssr-2002.pdf
| title = Religion Online: Finding Faith on the Internet
}}</ref>. Hausherr maintains a website with material related to Scientology, including the . He has been writing several years in the Lutheran magazine "Berliner Dialog" <ref></ref><ref></ref><ref></ref>, published by the Lutheran Sect Commissioner of Berlin, Priest Thomas Gandow, and others<ref>http://www.religio.de/dialog/105/28_01.htm#impress</ref> until 2005.
| publisher = Routledge
| year = 2004
| isbn = 0-415-97022-9
| page = 261}}
</ref>


In 1998, attorneys representing the Church of Scientology sent a letter to Hausherr, telling him to remove altered Scientology images from his Web site.<ref name="cnet1998">{{cite news
According to the United States Department of State ''International Religious Freedom Report 2004'', a "Lutheran Sect Commissioner" is an agent of the Lutheran Church in Germany that investigates "sects, cults, and psycho-groups" and publicizes what they consider to be the dangers of these groups.<blockquote>The Lutheran sect commissioners are especially active in their efforts to warn the public about supposed dangers posed by Scientology, as well as the Unification Church, Bhagwan-Osho, and Transcendental Meditation. The printed and Internet literature of the sect commissioners portrays these as "totalitarian," "pseudo-religious," and "fraudulent." Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, the Church of Christ, Christian Scientists, the New Apostolic Church, and the Johannish Church are characterized in less negative terms but nevertheless are singled out as "sects."The Catholic Church also employs sect commissioners, who generally restrict their activities to providing counsel to individuals who have questions about "sects."<ref>http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2004/35456.htm</ref></blockquote>
|last=Macavinta

|first=Courtney
A negative article about Hausherr appears on the Scientology-sponsored website ''Religious Freedom Watch'', which also features negative articles about other critics of the ], whom the site calls "anti-religious extremists."<ref></ref> Various sources credit Hausherr for coining the term "]" in the ] ] '']'', to which he is a regular contributor.<ref></ref><ref></ref>
|title=Scientologists in trademark disputes
|publisher=CNET News
|date=January 29, 1998
|url=http://news.cnet.com/Scientologists+in+trademark+disputes/2100-1023_3-207618.html
|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130119222638/http://news.cnet.com/Scientologists-in-trademark-disputes/2100-1023_3-207618.html
|archive-date=January 19, 2013
|url-status=dead
}}</ref> Hausherr had parodied copyright-protected images belonging to the Church including changing the ] to a ], as well as elongating the nose of the president of the organization, an image intended to evoke comparison to ].<ref name="cnet1998" /> In the course of the dispute ], which was hosting the pages and altered images, blocked his website for terms of service violations.<ref>{{cite news
|last = Zehnder
|first = Matthias W.
|title = Extremismus im Internet
|language = de
|publisher = Birkhäuser Verlag
|date = 1998
|url = http://www.mediaculture-online.de/fileadmin/bibliothek/zehnder_extremismus/zehnder_extremismus.html
|url-status = dead
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070927012440/http://www.mediaculture-online.de/fileadmin/bibliothek/zehnder_extremismus/zehnder_extremismus.html
|archive-date = 2007-09-27
}}</ref> Hausherr defended his site, saying "It's just a page making fun of Scientology--it's a form of art. Parodies are allowed under German and U.S. law."<ref name="cnet1998" />


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Latest revision as of 09:23, 20 February 2023

German software developer and critic of Scientology

Tilman Hausherr
OccupationSoftware developer
NationalityGerman
GenreComputer programming, Scientology criticism
SubjectScientology, Relational database management system
Website
xenu.de

Tilman Hausherr is a German citizen living in Berlin, Germany. Hausherr is well known among critics of Scientology for his frequent Usenet posts and for maintaining a website critical of Scientology. Hausherr is also the author of a software utility, Xenu's Link Sleuth, which was praised in a 2002 PC Magazine article covering 70 web builder utilities.

Coined "Sporgery"

Main article: Sporgery

Hausherr is credited with coining the term "Sporgery" in the Usenet newsgroup alt.religion.scientology, to which he is a regular contributor. "Sporgery" refers to internet attacks that not only spam a forum with offensive posts but also misrepresent regular users by forging their names to the spam posts. The term is a blending of the words "spam" and "forgery".

Website

Hausherr's website contains a large section critical of Scientology, including the "Scientology celebrities FAQ", as well as the "FAQ: Scientology in Germany" (2001). He has also contributed updates on the activities of the Church of Scientology to the magazine Berliner Dialog, published until 2005 by the non-profit organization Dialog Zentrum Berlin e.V. Hausherr was quoted in Religion Online as stating on his Web site: "Scientology is evil; its techniques evil; its practice a serious threat to the community, medically, morally and socially."

In 1998, attorneys representing the Church of Scientology sent a letter to Hausherr, telling him to remove altered Scientology images from his Web site. Hausherr had parodied copyright-protected images belonging to the Church including changing the Scientology "S" to a dollar sign, as well as elongating the nose of the president of the organization, an image intended to evoke comparison to Pinocchio. In the course of the dispute Compuserve, which was hosting the pages and altered images, blocked his website for terms of service violations. Hausherr defended his site, saying "It's just a page making fun of Scientology--it's a form of art. Parodies are allowed under German and U.S. law."

References

  1. "70 assists for a winning site.(WEB BUILDER'S TOOLKIT)", PC Magazine, April 23, 2002.
  2. Attack of the Robotic Poets Archived 2007-09-26 at the Wayback Machine, ZDNet, by Kevin Poulsen, May 06, 1999.
  3. ^ Højsgaard, Morten T.; Margit Warburg (2005). Religion and Cyberspace. Routledge. p. 111. ISBN 0-415-35767-5.
  4. Rutter, Daniel (16 September 1999). "Gibbering clones the future of Usenet?" (Reprint with annotation). Australian IT. Retrieved 16 March 2007.
  5. Kent, Stephen (September 2003). "Scientology and the European Human Rights Debate: A Reply to Leisa Goodman, J. Gordon Melton, and the European Rehabilitation Project Force Study". Marburg Journal of Religion. 8 (1). University of Marburg. doi:10.17192/mjr.2003.8.3725. Archived from the original on 29 June 2006.
  6. Hexham, Irving; Karla Poewe (April 1999). ""Verfassungsfeindlich": Church, State, And New Religions In Germany". Nova Religio. 2 (2): 208–227. doi:10.1525/nr.1999.2.2.208.
    Hudson, David., Scientology's "Holocaust" : Is Hollywood on the wrong side in Germany's "Church" vs. state furor?, Salon.com, February 25, 1997
  7. Berliner Dialog Article by Tilman Hausherr, "Helnwein und Scientology"
  8. Dawson, Lorne L.; Douglas E. Cowan (2004). Religion Online: Finding Faith on the Internet. Routledge. p. 261. ISBN 0-415-97022-9.
  9. ^ Macavinta, Courtney (29 January 1998). "Scientologists in trademark disputes". CNET News. Archived from the original on 19 January 2013.
  10. Zehnder, Matthias W. (1998). "Extremismus im Internet" (in German). Birkhäuser Verlag. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007.

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