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Google Publicizes DMCA Takedowns

Posted by michael on from the sunlight-is-best-medicine dept.

dmarti writes "In an apparent response to criticism of its handling of a threatening letter from a Church of Scientology lawyer, the popular search engine Google has begun to make so-called "takedown" letters public. DMCA-censored pages are now two clicks and a cut-and-paste away from the regular search results."

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  1. Why not charge the fuckers with perjury? by 91degrees · · Score: 0, Troll
    They always put "I swear under penalty of perjury....".


    Are they telling the truth? There's gotta be a lie in there somewhere! The potential irony of a legal team falling foul of a clause in their own boilerplate sounds intriquing.

  2. Re:Scientology sucks! by kindbud · · Score: 0, Troll

    You are so full of shit, your eyes are brown.

    Any scientologist worth his salt would have called the police the moment you threatened to shoot them. It's one thing to brandish a firearm to eject an intruder from your premises. It's quite another to threaten to come to their offices and shoot them. If you actually did that, you'd be in the pokey for assault right now, instead of making stupid threats AGAIN on Slashdot. And rightly so, regardless of what anyone thinks the merits of scientology are (or are not).

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  3. Re:Scientology sucks! by wedg · · Score: 1, Troll

    That worked. And that's how Scientologists should be dealt with. It's the only "reasoning" they understand.

    The same could be said for gun owners. Or Jehova's witnesses, or telemarketers. Anyway. It's 'bad' to start killing off cults. Freedom of religion and all that. The sensible thing would have been to report it to the police as harassment. You could've probably easily gotten a restraining order. And if they continued, they would've had to pay hefty fines, which would cause a lot more damage than scaring them away. Oh yeah, death threats are illegal. You should be in jail.

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