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Anti-Scientology site suddenly disappeared from Google. The reason: the search engine buckled to the Church of Scientology's abuse of the DMCA to silence critics. [Kuro5hin]
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"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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Press release from Fight Against Coercive Tactics Network.
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Copy of the letter from Church of Scientology law firm Moxon and Kobrin, demanding that Google remove xenu.net.
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"Google has chosen to block Operation Clambake from their search results." News and reader discussion. [kuro5hin]
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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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Short note about Google linking to DMCA claims from Scientology lawyers, followed by lively discussion. [Slashdot]
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"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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Article with comments from a Google spokesperson, a Scientology lawyer, and a staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. By Elinor Mills Abreu. [Reuters]
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After a furor over Google's removal of xenu.net from its database, the search engine relisted it--but only the main page. The other pages named in Scientology's DMCA complaint are still banned from Google. [Slashdot]
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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]
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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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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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Discussion of a New York Times story on the Church of Scientology's DMCA complaints and Google's response. [Slashdot]
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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]
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News brief misascribing cause of removal to "googlebombing", and ensuing reader discussion.
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Search engine Google caved in to demands from the "Church" of Scientology that it delete URLs pointing to a site critical of the cult. [The Register]
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Letter to Google from Church of Scientology, demands the removal of clambake.org, a mirror of Operation Clambake.
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Religious Technology Center (Church of Scientology) tells Google to yank a Norwegian personal page.
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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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Helena Kobrin writes that her firm is merely protecting intellectual property rights. [Linux Journal]
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The Church of Scientology used the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to strong-arm search engine Google into removing several pages of anti-Scientology site xenu.net from search results and directory. [Slashdot]
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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]
