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Scientology Uses DMCA to Delist Critic's Website
touretzky writes: "Scientology has used a DMCA threat to force removal of a large number of pages from xenu.net from the Google search engine. Some of the pages Scientology is objecting to contain no material owned by the cult; other pages are clearly covered under "fair use". Scientology's ongoing abuse of Google is documented here. Of course, the Norwegian owner of xenu.net could write a counternotification letter, but that would require him to agree to the jurisdiction of a US court in a district of Scientology's choosing." The posting by Heldal-Lund agrees with what we can observe at Google - the pages listed in the posting aren't in Google's database, though many others are. Update: 03/21 14:16 GMT by M : Paul Wouters of xtdnet.nl (which hosts xenu.net) submits this page documenting Scientology's attacks against the ISP for continuing to host xenu.net.
On fscking time a slashdot editor with a bit of brains came online and posted the story. I've submitted it, and gotten it rejected a total of 4 times the last 30 hours.
Kudos til Michael for finally getting this freaky case _posted_. Also, please note that http://www.digl-watch.com also seems censored by Google+Scientology+DMCA now.
It seems scary that the DMCA is used in this way. I think Google has opened a can of worms by kneeling in such a way to the Cult of Greed.
"Rune Kristian Viken" - http://www.nwo.no - arca
Everyone keeps calling the church of scientology a cult...
Every religion is a cult you dumb asses...
Just no one questions the cults with a billion followers...
What's more cult like? sueing someone for putting your copyrighted material on the net or blowing up an abortion clinic for jebus? how about crashing planes into skyscrapers? bulldozing peoples houses and shooting tank shells into apartment buildings?
are crap, all of them. Sorry God, we all have failed you.
The Taliban are fundamentalists of Islam, but not all fundamentalists of Islam are Taliban. Note that members and ministers of Islam have repeatedly called the Taliban a "sect" and also - aha - a "cult". So yes, they agree with you - that the Taliban are a cult.
who cares? we shoulda nuked all their taxi driving asses.