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Google removed links to prominent anti-Scientology sites in response to a DMCA violation notice served to them by the Church of Scientology's lawyers.

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• Cult Forces Google to Remove Critical Links

  http://www.zdnet.com/article/cult-forces-google-to-remove-critical-links/
  "The Church of Scientology is using the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act to remove links to a critical Web site from the Google search engine." By Matt Loney. [ZDNet UK]

• Google Asked to Delist Scientology Critics

  https://www.lumendatabase.org/notices/368
  Copy of the letter from Church of Scientology law firm Moxon and Kobrin, demanding that Google remove xenu.net.

• Google Publicizes DMCA Takedowns

  http://slashdot.org/yro/02/04/12/1742220.shtml
  Short note about Google linking to DMCA claims from Scientology lawyers, followed by lively discussion. [Slashdot]

• Google Pulls Anti-Scientology Links

  http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-865936.html
  "Google was accused Wednesday of effectively removing from the Internet a Web site that is critical of the Church of Scientology after it deleted links to some of the site's pages from its search engine." By Matt Loney and Evan Hansen. [CNet]

• Google Relists Operation Clambake

  http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/03/22/0141250
  "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." News and reader discussion. [Slashdot]

• Google Runs Into Copyright Dispute

  http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/22/technology/ebusiness/22NECO.html
  Summarizes the course of events in Scientology's efforts to remove links to critics' sites from Google, and the search engine's response of providing the DMCA complaints (and links) to another site for publication. Requires free registration. [New York Times]

• Google vs. DMCA and Scientology

  http://slashdot.org/yro/02/04/22/130223.shtml
  Discussion of a New York Times story on the Church of Scientology's DMCA complaints and Google's response. [Slashdot]

• MetaFilter Comments

  http://www.metafilter.com/comments.mefi/15684
  News brief misascribing cause of removal to "googlebombing", and ensuing reader discussion.

• Scientologists Gag Google

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/03/22/scientologists_gag_google/
  "Web search outfit Google has caved in to demands from the 'Church' of Scientology demanding that it delete URLs from its database directing Web surfers to certain pages maintained by Xenu.net, a well-known CoS critic." [The Register]

• Scientology Complaint to Google #2

  https://www.lumendatabase.org/notices/424
  Letter to Google from Church of Scientology, demands the removal of clambake.org, a mirror of Operation Clambake.

• Scientology Complaint to Google #3

  https://www.lumendatabase.org/notices/426
  Religious Technology Center (Church of Scientology) tells Google to yank a Norwegian personal page.

• Scientology Complaint to Google #4

  https://www.lumendatabase.org/notices/457
  Religious Technology Center and Bridge Publications demand, on behalf of the Church of Scientology, that Google delete posts from its Usenet archive of alt.religion.scientology. Text of DMCA complaint.

• Scientology Lawyer Promises to Continue "Appropriate Action"

  http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6007
  Helena Kobrin writes that her firm is merely protecting intellectual property rights. [Linux Journal]

• Scientology Uses DMCA to Delist Critic's Website

  http://slashdot.org/yro/02/03/21/0453200.shtml
  The Church of Scientology used the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to strong-arm search engine Google into removing several pages of an anti-Scientology site from search results and directory. [Slashdot]

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