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• Society: Issues: Intellectual Property: Copyrights: Digital Millennium Copyright Act: Google Erasure of Anti-Scientology Links  (20)
• Society: Religion and Spirituality: Scientology: Church of Scientology: Response to Critics: Scientology v. Internet  (6)

• About Scientology's Cookie-Cutter Web Pages - Explains how the Scientologist On-line program, which promoted flooding search engines with thousands of nearly-identical so-called "personal" pages, backfired on Scientology.
• Church of Scientology Censors Net Access for Members - Information about the CoS censorware that filters any site that may say anything critical about the organization.
• The Church of Scientology vs. the Net - Journal of the events involving net-denizens and the Church of Scientology occurring in 1995 and 1996.
• Clam-Nanny Cracked - The list of banned servers, forbidden newsgroups and censored words from the Church of Scientology censorware.
• Cyber-Rights: The Church of Scientology vs. the Net - Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility site outlines major events and trends in Scientology's war against fair use and freedom of speech online.
• Exclusions from the Wayback Machine - An Internet Archive spokesperson states, on a message board, that materials were removed from the Wayback Machine because Scientology lawyers claimed ownership. This goes over like a lead balloon.
• Google Bows to Scientology! - Message board discussing Google's March 2002 removal of sites critical of Scientology.
• Scientology Cult Attacks XS4ALL - Contains links and press coverage both in Dutch and English translations.
• The Scientology sect vs. Internet - Panoramic view of the "church" of Scientology's dirty campaign against its critics on the Internet, from the raids on anon.penet.fi and XS4ALL to present-day censoring of the cult's own members.

• Net Archive Silences Scientology Critic - The Internet Archive, buckling under pressure from the Church of Scientology, removed all links to xenu.net, and replaced them with a notice claiming the pages had been removed "per the request of the site owner." [CNET News.com] (September 24, 2002)
• Wayback Machine Purged of Scientology Criticism - Report that the Wayback Machine, an archive of web sites, has censored anti-Scientology site xenu.net. Links and reader discussion. [Slashdot] (September 24, 2002)
• Church of Scientology fights Google - Civil libertarians were outraged when Google removed links to a site which portrays Scientology as a money-hungry cult. Scientology's legal threat may have backfired, since the critic's site now is second only to the Church's official site in search results. [BBC News] (April 25, 2002)
• Scientologists Shut Down ISP - A report that Dutch ISP Xtended Internet was cut off by its upstream provider, after the Church of Scientology threatened legal action. Also mentions Google's capitulation to a DMCA threat from Scientology. [DSLreports.com] (March 22, 2002)
• Scientologists shut ISP's Net connection - Dutch ISP Xtended Internet was cut off by its upstream provider after the Church of Scientology brandished legal threats against an Xtended customer who provides documents about Scientology. [ZDNet UK] (March 22, 2002)
• The Church of Scientology's Supremacy over the search term "Scientology" on Google - Analysis of CoS manipulation of Internet search utilities to obtain high page ranks for its sites. (February 12, 2002)
• Xenu Do, But Not on Slashdot - Scientology's notoriously litigious attack attorneys strong-armed Slashdot editors into deleting a discussion board message, which allegedly contained copyrighted material. [Wired] (March 17, 2001)
• Anti-Scientology Site Shut Down - The owner of xenu.net reported that the site was shut down after the ISP received a letter from Scientology's Religious Technology Center alleging trademark infringement. [Slashdot] (November 19, 1999)
• Copyright--Or Wrong? - The Church of Scientology takes up a new weapon--the Digital Millennium Copyright Act--in its ongoing battle with critics. [Salon.com] (July 22, 1999)
• Internet is battleground in foes' war of information - Around the clock, from Norway, the Netherlands, Australia and every corner of the United States, the critics of Scientology discuss the controversial organization and its practices. [St. Petersburg Times] (March 29, 1999)
• Scientology on the World Wide Web - A collection of links to pro and con sites. [St. Petersburg Times] (March 29, 1999)
• Scientologists Lose a Round in Copyright fight - The war between Scientology and its online opponents may have no visible end, but victory in the latest skirmish goes to the Net. [Salon.com] (November 10, 1998)
• A Web of Their Own - Scientologists say their Internet filter protects the faithful. Critics call it "cult mind-control." [Salon.com] (July 15, 1998)
• Scientology Slips Through the Net - Reviews the Religious Technology Center v. Keith Henson case, in which Henson posted a document called NOTs 34 on the alt.religion.scientology newsgroup, and was fined for violating the Church of Scietology's copyright. [Wired] (May 18, 1998)
• Getting Clear at BU? - Boston University chairman's legal role in Scientology copyright flap raises questions. [Salon.com] (May 15, 1996)
• Anonymity: 0. Scientology: 1. - About the raid on anon.penet.fi, at the behest of the Church of Scientology. [Wired Magazine] (May 1, 1995)