Suppressive Person Defense League

With the new explosion of social media comes the need to say things or look at things we have never had to before.

Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, MySpace are just a few of the new social media that we all use or are part of.

Sometimes our followers, friends, connections, or whatever you want to call them....expand enormously. As the landscape changes our need to remove friends or otherwise disconnect becomes necessary.

PLEASE.....if you see someone listed as a "friend" to someone else and that "friend" is not in good standing please tell them "hey did you know that your friend is a declared SP- really I recommend you contact OSA so you can see the declare"...DO NOT contact the "friend" that is not in good standing but do be sure that the one who has them listed as a "friend" is aware of this.

Please verify that the person is not in good standing yourself before you do this. For example if you have Joe Smith as one of your friends and he has Susie Bell listed as one of his friends. You KNOW Susie Bell is declared, you have seen the Declare at the org. Contact Joe Smith and tell him that you have seen the declare order on Susie Bell OR urge him to contact OSA so he can confirm that there is a declare order on Susie himself.

If you do that and the connection remains then you should write a KR on Joe Smith (in the example above). Please write the KR per the KR policy. Send a copy to them via facebook private message if you do not know how else to get it to them.

BUT do not just send private messages to everyone else telling them that Joe Smith has SPs as friends without first confirming that he even knows this. Perhaps Joe Smith does not know. It is tantamount to simply third partying someone that may have NO idea that there is any problem. Conversely if they do know and they are not doing anything about it the need to put ethics in on them is now your responsibility.

I have received several of these alerts about connections being suppressives. In one case it was true. The others turned out to be "panic" alerts that had not been verified at all. They were false. I even received a private message from someone saying that some lady, listed as a friend of mine, was in bad standing and should be removed from my list. When challenged by someone else (it was a broad message to many people) that did try to verify this her response was that she was removing her just to be safe. Upon pulling the string the lady had done absolutely nothing. In fact it was the opposite, she had been the subject of an attack by a squirrel group. This is a way to really trash someone who has not done anything if you are lazy about it and just keep spreading something without verifying it first. It is a responsibility that you bear to verify these things before spreading them around.

We have policy on ethics, justice and third party. We do not need to be allowing ourselves to be connected to those that have gotten themselves declared and are stopping our group and its members. We also do not need to go crazy spreading false information that ruins a reputation without cause or proper use of our own ethics and justice.

Please learn LRH policy on JUSTICE. DO NOT allow your social networks to become a hot bed of suppressives and do not fall prey to falsely labeling someone "just to be safe". Don't be lazy.

Keep your lines clean and follow LRH policy.

ML, Tomi Lyn Bowling
Solo NOTs Auditor
Hubbard Ethics Specialist

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