Directory of Scientology v. Internet Resources

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Sites regarding the efforts made by the Church of Scientology to stifle free speech on the Internet.

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• About Scientology's Cookie-Cutter Web Pages

  http://www.scientology-lies.com/aboutspam.html
  Explains how the Scientologist On-line program, which promoted flooding search engines with thousands of nearly-identical so-called "personal" pages, backfired on Scientology.

• Anti-Scientology Site Shut Down

  http://slashdot.org/yro/99/11/19/0219227.shtml
  The owner of xenu.net reported that the site was shut down after the ISP received a letter from Scientology's Religious Technology Center alleging trademark infringement. [Slashdot]

• Church of Scientology Censors Net Access for Members

  http://www.xenu.net/archive/events/censorship/
  Information about the CoS censorware that filters any site that may say anything critical about the organization.

• Church of Scientology fights Google

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1949879.stm
  Civil libertarians were outraged when Google removed links to a site which portrays Scientology as a money-hungry cult. Scientology's legal threat may have backfired, since the critic's site now is second only to the Church's official site in search results. [BBC News]

• Clam-Nanny Cracked

  http://www.taniwha.com/crack.list.html
  The list of banned servers, forbidden newsgroups and censored words from the Church of Scientology censorware.

• Cyber-Rights: The Church of Scientology vs. the Net

  http://cpsr.org/prevsite/cpsr/nii/cyber-rights/web/current-scientology.html/
  Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility site outlines major events and trends in Scientology's war against fair use and freedom of speech online.

• Exclusions from the Wayback Machine

  http://www.archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=778
  An Internet Archive spokesperson states, on a message board, that materials were removed from the Wayback Machine because Scientology lawyers claimed ownership. This goes over like a lead balloon.

• Google Bows to Scientology!

  http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=105030
  Message board discussing Google's March 2002 removal of sites critical of Scientology.

• Internet is battleground in foes' war of information

  http://www.sptimes.com/News/32999/Worldandnation/Internet_is_battlegro.html
  Around the clock, from Norway, the Netherlands, Australia and every corner of the United States, the critics of Scientology discuss the controversial organization and its practices. [St. Petersburg Times]

• Net Archive Silences Scientology Critic

  http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-959236.html
  The Internet Archive, buckling under pressure from the Church of Scientology, removed all links to xenu.net, and replaced them with a notice claiming the pages had been removed "per the request of the site owner." [CNET News.com]

• Scientologists Shut Down ISP

  http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/16197
  A report that Dutch ISP Xtended Internet was cut off by its upstream provider, after the Church of Scientology threatened legal action. Also mentions Google's capitulation to a DMCA threat from Scientology. [DSLreports.com]

• Scientology Cult Attacks XS4ALL

  http://www.xs4all.nl/~felipe/cos/
  Contains links and press coverage both in Dutch and English translations.

• Scientology on the World Wide Web

  http://www.sptimes.com/News/32999/Worldandnation/Scientology_on_the_Wo.html
  A collection of links to pro and con sites. [St. Petersburg Times]

• The Scientology sect vs. Internet

  http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/CoS/
  Panoramic view of the "church" of Scientology's dirty campaign against its critics on the Internet, from the raids on anon.penet.fi and XS4ALL to present-day censoring of the cult's own members.

• Wayback Machine Purged of Scientology Criticism

  http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/02/09/24/226253.shtml
  Report that the Wayback Machine, an archive of web sites, has censored anti-Scientology site xenu.net. Links and reader discussion. [Slashdot]

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