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Scientology Uses DMCA to Delist Critic's Website

Posted by michael on from the legal-innovations dept.

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.

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  1. The best Scientology info is in his OTHER books... by teamhasnoi · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    L Ron Hubbard was a fine writer. Battlefield Earth is an excellent book (before Travota). R. Ron Hubbard also wrote a huge series of books called Mission Earth. 10 volumes! A zillion pages. Also very good.

    Before you say, "Shut up you.. you... Scientologist!", let me point out that the main character in both Battlefield Earth and Mission Earth (10 full novels!) was a guy who was concerned with security. This guy lied, cheated, stole, and killed to reach his goals. Not just just a little, ALOT. It permeated every fibre of both characters. There was not a moment when these two were NOT scheming, planning on killing someone for small gains or devising ways to get "leverage" over their enemies. They viewed others (apart from themseves) as bags of meat.

    My point to all of this is that L. Ron Hubbard was a writer. Take into account that writers "write what they know" (even a little, he wrote THOUSANDS of pages featuring these characters), and you have all the anti-Scientology information you need. L. RON. HUBBARD - GOOD writer, BAD religous leader.

    If Travolta is reading this: I loved PULP FICTION