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.

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Why do people stand by and allow this?

[Anonymous Coward]

Why have there been no actions against scientology? I mean C4 is not that hard to make and you can buy a 30-06 rifle at most sporting goods stores. Scientology is going to far by abusing our legal system worse than the goverment or large companies have. I wait for the day when someone will sink those two damn boats and level their headquarters. The deaths of the upper leaders of scientology will no doubt give the rest of the organization pause as to how far they can go.

Jews

[k2x]

I wouldn't be suprised if the "upper levels" of Scientology were Jews.

Only people of understanding can interpret my statement. And please no anti-semetic comments, because that means, you don't understand.