Posted on 11/13/2007 12:38:09 PM PST by Gamecock
Sunnyvale, California - The Internet "giant" Yahoo has recently come under fire by former Pensacola Christian College students who say they were "turned in" to the school's administration for maintaining an online forum which discussed and supported Reformed doctrine.
"We feel betrayed" said former student Mark Hudson.
Hudson, along with seven other students were recently asked to leave the school after the administration discovered that they were secretly maintaining the web forum. The site, called "The Calvinist Underground" was frequented by a number of "closet Calvinists" at many Independent Fundamentalist Schools around the country. The site often contained frustrations expressed by the students that if their true beliefs were to be expressed they would be pressured to leave their respective schools.
When Hudson and the other students were called into the Vice President's office, they had no idea what they had done.
"We thought maybe we were in trouble for walking on the grass or something" said Hudson. "We were prepared to take the punishment, but suddenly we were confronted with the question 'Gentlemen, is this your website?' We were shocked, because online we only used aliases. We didn't know it at the time, but they had been informed."
Since the students have left the school, they have since discovered that the school's administration was able to obtain their information through Yahoo.
"We don't know exactly how they did it, but they were able to contact Yahoo and get our real names" said Hudson. "We feel that this is a serious breach of privacy."
Hudson now fears for the other students that frequented the board.
"We had students from Liberty University, Hyles-Anderson College, and Baptist Bible College" said Hudson. "We don't know if their schools will simply be able to do the same thing and find out who these poor students are and they will get in trouble."
TBNN tried repeatedly to contact Yahoo, but no one was available for comment.
First Chinese dissidents, now Calvinists. Who will Yahoo turn over next!?!
Yes, but it was predestined they would be turned in. Great stuff! I love the guys at TITB.
I didn’t realise that being a calvinist was so dangerous.
The pogrom begins.
Reformed Calvinism...the Devil’s Playground online....LOL!
Pity about the students though, anyone who has an iota of Technical knowledge would never trust the Net for anonymity and especially trust Yahoo!, if they will turn in Chinese publishers, they most certainly will turn anyone else in.
From the looks of things the Calvin kids were using the schools computer. Therefore deserved to get caught If they can’t obey the schools rules. They most certainly will not obey God
Nothing is mentioned about school computers.
It's not if you are among the elect, or not a heretic.
Of course it says nothing about the schools computers. You have to look at the source of the article they have a side in this.
would it not make more sense if the school found all this activity on their computer. Since it was theirs they would have little trouble in finding out who had been doing this.
Psst... it’s satire.
Sorry but your tagline and your comments on this thread taken together are making me laugh.
Why in the world is it any of Yahoo’s business and why are the schools making such a big deal of it?
Uh... they had a side in this? It’s a fake story. Made up. Didn’t happen. That’s what satire is.
Stop baiting the free will police.
Yeah - they always slant stories towards the fictional side.
Names like Triumph, Parrot, Fosteriana, and Greigii gave them away.
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