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Church of Scientology International Vice President on the Scientology-Google controversy. [The
Mercury News]
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/3388247.htm
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Google Runs Into Copyright Dispute
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]
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/22/technology/ebusiness/22NECO.html
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The Google Way
Examines Google's response to Scientology's DMCA claims. Quotes lawyers for Google, the Church of
Scientology, Ask Jeeves, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. [Corporate Counsel]
http://www.law.com/jsp/printerfriendly.jsp?c=LawArticle&t=PrinterFriendlyArticle&cid=10....
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Scientology Lawyer Promises to Continue "Appropriate Action"
Helena Kobrin writes that her firm is merely protecting intellectual property rights. [Linux
Journal]
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6007
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Google vs. DMCA and Scientology
Discussion of a New York Times story on the Church of Scientology's DMCA complaints and Google's
response. [Slashdot]
http://slashdot.org/articles/02/04/22/130223.shtml
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Scientology Complaint to Google #4
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.
http://chillingeffects.org/dmca512/notice.cgi?NoticeID=266
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Google Makes Scientology Infringement Demand Public
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]
http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/02/sd0415-google-dmca.html
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Google Publicizes DMCA Takedowns
Short note about Google linking to DMCA claims from Scientology lawyers, followed by lively
discussion. [Slashdot]
http://slashdot.org/yro/02/04/12/1742220.shtml
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Scientology Complaint to Google #3
Religious Technology Center (Church of Scientology) tells Google to yank a Norwegian personal page.
http://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca512/notice.cgi?NoticeID=253
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Scientology Complaint to Google #2
Letter to Google from Church of Scientology, demands the removal of clambake.org, a mirror of
Operation Clambake.
http://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca512/notice.cgi?NoticeID=252
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Google Asked to Delist Scientology Critics
Copy of the letter from Church of Scientology law firm Moxon & Kobrin, demanding that Google
remove xenu.net.
http://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca512/notice.cgi?NoticeID=232
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Scientologists use DMCA against Google
The owner of the high-profile anti-Scientology site removed from Google's search results says that
it would be in Google's best interest to fight demands to censor results. Scientology spokesperson
says that they asked that the site be removed to prevent violence. [VNU Business Publications]
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1130581
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Google Embroiled in Scientology Debate
Summary and analysis of the Xenu.net removal. [Search Engine Watch]
http://sewatch.com/sereport/02/04-dmca.html
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Google Caves to Church's Legal Pressure
Anti-Scientology sites were removed from the search engine, based on the Church's brandishing the
legal threat of the DMCA. Since Google has given in to one bully, it will not be surprising to see
them manipulated by others. [osOpinion.com]
http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16938.html
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Google Censors xenu.net?
"Google has chosen to block Operation Clambake from their search results." News and
reader discussion. [kuro5hin]
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/3/20/8222/92911
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Google caught out by copyright
The search engine was forced to remove links from its database under the provisions of the DMCA.
The Act offers no guide to maximum limits for fair use. [Internet Magazine]
http://www.internet-magazine.com/news/view.asp?id=2387
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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]
http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2002/03/22/xenugoogle020322
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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]
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/03/22/0141250
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Hazards of the DMCA
Dave Winer writes that Google's banning of a site critical of Scientology is the first scene in a
Constitutional nightmare. The DMCA threatens freedom of speech. [CNET News.com]
http://news.com.com/2010-1076-866940.html
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Cult Forces Google to Remove Critical Links
"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]
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2107088,00.html
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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]
http://www.microcontentnews.com/articles/googlechurch.htm
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MetaFilter Comments
News brief misascribing cause of removal to "googlebombing", and ensuing reader
discussion.
http://www.metafilter.com/comments.mefi/15684
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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]
http://boingboing.net/2002_03_01_archive.html#75027851
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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]
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-865936.html
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Church v. Google, Round 2
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]
http://microcontentnews.com/articles/googleupdate.htm
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FACTNet: Google, Censorship and Scientology?
Press release from Fight Against Coercive Tactics Network.
http://www.factnet.org/Scientology/Google_Scientology.html
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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]
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/24533.html
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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]
http://geek.com/news/geeknews/2002mar/gee20020322010860.htm
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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]
http://slashdot.org/yro/02/03/21/0453200.shtml
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DMCA Used to Remove Scientology Critics from Google
Google accused of censorship for removing links to a site critical of Scientology from the search
engine and its directory. Raises the question of how many other sites may be missing. [InfoAnarchy]
http://www.infoanarchy.org/story/2002/3/20/2037/19185
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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]
http://www.namibian.com.na/2002/March/techtalk/024EC99109.html
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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]
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51233,00.html
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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]
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/3/21/8503/37759
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Google Censors Scientology Critics
"The search engine Google is censoring the Internet's leading critic of the Church of
Scientology, Operation Clambake." [Daily Rotten]
http://www.dailyrotten.com/articles/archive/290725.html
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