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Church of Scientology Wields the DMCA, Google Removes Xenu.net
"The Church of Scientology has abused the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) to get Google to remove a bunch of links. Google caved at once, even though they claim that they do not remove pages." News and reader discussion. [Kuro5hin]
www.kuro5hin.org
Google Yanks Anti-Church Sites
The Church of Scientology has managed to remove references to anti-Scientology sites from Google, by citing the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act. [Wired]
www.wired.com
Google Pulls, Replaces Web Page Critical of Scientology
Article with comments from a Google spokesperson, a Scientology lawyer, and a staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. By Elinor Mills Abreu. [Reuters]
www.namibian.com.na
Scientology Uses DMCA to Delist Critic's Website
The Church of Scientology used the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to strong-arm search engine Google into removing several pages of an anti-Scientology site from search results and directory. [Slashdot]
slashdot.org
Google Removes DMCA Offenders; Anti-Scientology Sites the Latest
Google's swift removal of anti-Scientology sites is only a tip of the iceberg. Search engines cannot be trusted as long as the DMCA forces providers to cut off materials on a mere allegation, under threat of legal action. [Geek.com]
geek.com
"Web search outfit Google has caved in to demands from the 'Church' of Scientology demanding that it delete URLs from its database directing Web surfers to certain pages maintained by Xenu.net, a well-known CoS critic." [The Register]
www.theregister.co.uk
FACTNet: Google, Censorship and Scientology?
Press release from Fight Against Coercive Tactics Network.
www.factnet.org
Update on the status of xenu.net. The majority of the pages are still censored, though the front page has been relisted. The Church of Scientology's notification of a DMCA violation is spurious since it claims a trademark infringement not a copyright infringement. [Microcontent News]
microcontentnews.com
Google Pulls Anti-Scientology Links
"Google was accused Wednesday of effectively removing from the Internet a Web site that is critical of the Church of Scientology after it deleted links to some of the site's pages from its search engine." By Matt Loney and Evan Hansen. [CNet]
news.com.com
Google Censored by the Church of Scientology and the DMCA
"Any yahoo (no pun intended) can now have other people's materials removed from any search tool, just by writing a spurious poison-pen letter." [Boing Boing]
boingboing.net
News brief misascribing cause of removal to "googlebombing", and ensuing reader discussion.
www.metafilter.com
Church v. Google: How the Church of Scientology is Forcing Google to Censor its Critics
Long article on the popular search engine Google, attempts of webmasters to boost ratings, Scientology's use of copyright law to muzzle critics. Questions raised by Scientology's using the DMCA to remove critics from search engine database. [Microcontent News]
www.microcontentnews.com
Google Relists Operation Clambake
"Google only relisted Xenu.net's homepage (where the copyright claims by Scientology were clearly bogus), not the rest of the pages listed in Scientology's DMCA complaint." News and reader discussion. [Slashdot]
slashdot.org
Google removes anti-Scientology Web links
The Church of Scientology threatened legal action under the DMCA against Google unless the search engine removed sites critical of Scientology. [CBC News]
www.cbc.ca
"Google has chosen to block Operation Clambake from their search results." News and reader discussion. [kuro5hin]
www.kuro5hin.org