Google Relists Operation Clambake

DarkZero writes: "After almost every tech site and individual geek banded together to either carry the story about Google's delisting of Operation Clambake or flat-out protest it, Google has apparently relisted Xenu.net. Searches for 'xenu' and 'scientology' list Operation Clambake as the first and fourth results, respectively. The search for "scientology" also lists a story from C|Net about Google delisting Operation Clambake, as well as a protest ad from a Kuro5hin reader (oc3)." Update: 03/22 12:52 GMT by M : We jumped the gun. Google only relisted Xenu.net's homepage (where the copyright claims by Scientology were clearly bogus), not the rest of the pages listed in Scientology's DMCA complaint. Some Google sysadmin is getting aggravated because every 20 minutes, another memo from management is coming down telling him to alter the live database.

Comments

Barnum would laugh...big hoax and all.

[Anonymous Coward]

OP Clambake is actually the scientology folks working the backend...remember, any publicity it good, and good publicity is even better. This is simply a scam to get scientology into the news.

Re:Protest ad is up.

[GigsVT]

Note to geeks, avoid searching for terms that bring up the ad, you are just wasting the money of the people you want to support in destroying religion.

I'm all for destroying any religion I can whenever possible, but be intelligent about it, don't search just to "see the ad for yourself".

Next christianity? I can hope can't I?

Re:Correspondance from Google

[BoneFlower]

"Google takes the first amendment very seriously. We are also obligated to
follow the laws of the land."

True.

"It is not within our discretion as a company to decide when
to conform to the DMCA and when to ignore it."

Bullshit. The CoS(Crate of Shit... ummm Church of Scientology) attempt to use the DMCA is unconstitutional. www.xenu.net is a journalistic site. Therefore it is protected under freedom of the press, WHICH CANNOT BE SUPERSEDED BY ANY LAW LESS THAN A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. Therefore, the DMCA DOES NOT apply.

Re:Damn it!

[FFFish]

Pshaw. You're making the naive assumption that to effectively moderate, one must have knowledge of the topic one is moderating. This is quite patently absurd: Slashdot moderators are hand-picked for their immense wealth of ignorance. That way, they can't possibly be biased.