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Google Yanks Anti-Church Sites - http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2002/03/51233
The Church of Scientology has managed to remove references to anti-Scientology sites from Google, by citing the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act. [Wired] |
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Google Pulls Anti-Scientology Links - http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-865936.html
"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] |
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Google Runs Into Copyright Dispute - http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/22/technology/ebusiness/22NECO.html
Summarizes the course of events in Scientology's efforts to remove links to critics' sites from Google, and the search engine's response of providing the DMCA complaints (and links) to another site for publication. Requires free registration. [New York Times] |
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Google Asked to Delist Scientology Critics - http://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca512/notice.cgi?NoticeID=232
Copy of the letter from Church of Scientology law firm Moxon and Kobrin, demanding that Google remove xenu.net. |
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Scientology Complaint to Google #2 - http://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca512/notice.cgi?NoticeID=252
Letter to Google from Church of Scientology, demands the removal of clambake.org, a mirror of Operation Clambake. |
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Scientology Complaint to Google #3 - http://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca512/notice.cgi?NoticeID=253
Religious Technology Center (Church of Scientology) tells Google to yank a Norwegian personal page. |
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Scientologists Gag Google - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/03/22/scientologists_gag_google/
"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] |
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Cult Forces Google to Remove Critical Links - http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,1000000097,2107088,00.htm
"The Church of Scientology is using the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act to remove links to a critical Web site from the Google search engine." By Matt Loney. [ZDNet UK] |
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Scientology Complaint to Google #4 - http://chillingeffects.org/dmca512/notice.cgi?NoticeID=266
Religious Technology Center and Bridge Publications demand, on behalf of the Church of Scientology, that Google delete posts from its Usenet archive of alt.religion.scientology. Text of DMCA complaint. |
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Google Censors xenu.net? - http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/3/20/8222/92911
"Google has chosen to block Operation Clambake from their search results." News and reader discussion. [kuro5hin] |
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FACTNet: Google, Censorship and Scientology? - http://www.factnet.org/Scientology/Google_Scientology.html
Press release from Fight Against Coercive Tactics Network. |
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Google Makes Scientology Infringement Demand Public - http://searchenginewatch.com/2159691
Google has made public the letter it received from Scientology lawyers demanding it remove critical content from its search engine, complete with a list of allegedly infringing URLs. [SearchDay] |
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Google Relists Operation Clambake - http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/03/22/0141250
"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] |
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Google Publicizes DMCA Takedowns - http://slashdot.org/yro/02/04/12/1742220.shtml
Short note about Google linking to DMCA claims from Scientology lawyers, followed by lively discussion. [Slashdot] |
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Church of Scientology Wields the DMCA, Google Removes Xenu.net - http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/3/21/8503/37759
"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] |