On first glance, the website looks like it's making fun of the mass
suicide of the cult members. But this is only skin deep. Digging into the
site, there's really a serious
message about how the media has covered this event, particularlly since
these people were using the Internet. They didn't like the general media
coverage on this
event, so they took their message to the web.
Quoting from their website:
The media spin on the suicide of religious
cult members is, in a word, inexcusable. Television, radio and print media
sources have reported this as if the cult
did all their recruiting online and killed
themselves by ingesting poison computer parts. The cult was around for
22 years, LONG before the web. They only
recently began making some money making VERY
bad web pages. I ask you, if they where garbage men would the story be
focused on dumps and not the
deaths? If they were construction workers,
would they be discussing how vulnerable and lonely the average framer is?
The crew at highersource.org is trying to accomplish
one thing. To bring attention to the inaccuracies of the reporting about
the Internet. Not only in the
present farcical situation, but in all reporting
of the net. Not everyone on the net is a pedophile or religious cult member.
Millions of people use the Internet
every day for their business, research and
other legitimate reasons.
I have included one of their "Media Integrity NOW!" icons on phoneboy.com
because I support their goal of bringing accuracy to media coverage about
the
Internet, but I'd take it one step further and say that the media should
more accurately cover all events, Internet-related or otherwise.
Anyway, if you're looking for a good laugh or you want to help the cause
of proper media coverage of the Internet, check this website out!