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Right to repair’s unlikely new adversary: Scientologists
(arstechnica.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
It was mostly publicized via Usenet by Arnaldo Lerma, Dennis Erlich, Karin Spaink, David Touretzky, and other activists and ex-Scientologists starting in the early 1990s. The South Park episode didn't come out until over ten years later in 2005.