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> "He also is a member of the board of EarthLink, an Internet service provider that competes aggressively with Verizon and AT&T." Is that the Scientologist ISP

• pudquick 13y ago
  The company was founded by several Scientologists, yes - Sky Dayton, Reed Slatkin, and Kevin M. O'Donnell. It's my understanding that while they were directly involved, some of the published media the corporation put out would sometimes have a 'column' where Sky ended up mentioning Scientology in some way. However, none of them are involved in the company any more. The company went through some major restructuring, leadership and organization-wise, in 2006-2007. They're a public company with a board of directors (of which Tom is now a part). Not sure how much Scientology has any impact or connection (financial or otherwise) to it any more, so I'm not sure calling it the 'Scientologist ISP' is still accurate. I know that the connections/beliefs of the founders - and the fact that Reed Slatkin was convicted of a massive ponzi scam - has put Earthlink on many scam/cult watch lists semi-permanently. If you're attempting to draw a connection between Tom and Scientology, though, I'm not sure I follow.