In what can be deemed to be a massive betrayal of ex-cult members' trust these websites - culteducation.com, rickross.net, rickross.org, rick-ross.net and rick-ross.org are now for sale to the highest bidder. As one of the most aggressive cults in the world, you can be sure that CO$ will put in a bid.

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And what will the purchaser(s) get for their bucks?

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Rickross.com today is the gateway to a vast archive that has been under continuous construction for 17 years. This ever expanding online library includes thousands of individual documents, articles, reports and studies divided into hundreds of subsections by topic such as Scientology, Landmark Education and “brainwashing.”

A wealth of information is contained within the public message board attached to the RI Web site, which has more than 100,000 entries. The posts at this open forum board include comments from former cult members, affected families and others concerned.

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This means that the purchaser(s) will get unrestricted access to the identities of all memberships, email addresses, passwords, and other contact details.

This is a massive betrayal of members' trust.

Is this true? I hope not.

Others expressed concern back in June and Mr Ross posted this message here:

[forum.culteducation.com]

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June 29, 2013 12:42PM
rrmoderator
Date Added: 06/17/2002
Posts: 4818
Re: Soka Gakkai International -- SGI
To whom it may concern:

1. The message board was down to a glitch, which was repaired. These things happen.

2. Nothing here will be changed when the domain name culteducation.com is sold.

The name Rick Ross will be deleted from the URL address, but no content will be deleted, moved or changed in any way at this message board and/or the main archives.

I would suggest setting up a redirect from the old domain and not selling it. Selling it could potentially lead to somebody else appropriating the domain and using it to publish content that could be used to make Rick Ross look bad. Remember CAN. I assume this is what Rick plans on doing.

If you're truly concerned, send a PM to Mr Rick Ross, owner and moderator of this message board.

He can be reached by PM here:

[forum.culteducation.com]

How will identities of the users will be protected when the domain is sold Rick?
Do you keep IP addresses of users and if so are you going to sell the list of IP addresses to the buyer?

Puella. Please see this thread for the answer. A domain is just a name. It's not the content.

Chris Butler will probably try to use his millions of dollars to secure ownership of this website ... he's expert at using money to gain control of people's minds!