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Reference materials Silencing criticism, censorship
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Apr 13, 2004
Marin County // Scientology critic ordered to pay church — San Francisco Chronicle (California)
Type: Press
Author(s): Don Lattin
Source: San Francisco Chronicle (California)
A former member and longtime critic of the Church of Scientology has been ordered by a Marin County judge to pay the church $500,000 for speaking out against the controversial religious movement. Superior Court Judge Lynn Duryee issued that order in a breach-of-contract lawsuit against Scientology defector Gerald Armstrong. The Church of Scientology had sought $10 million from Armstrong, who joined the church in 1969, left the fold in 1981 and later became one of the movement's harshest critics. He was ...
Sep 12, 2003
The mills of Xenu grind exceeding slow — The Inquirer
Type: Press
Author(s): Wendy M. Grossman
Source: The Inquirer
IT WAS WITH some astonishment that I read this week that a Dutch court ruled on September 4 that writer Karin Spaink could keep the Scientology materials on her Web site. The original case, in which this is the third ruling, began in the Pleistocene era in Internet terms — nine years ago. I had no idea it was still doing the Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce thing. I spent much of 1994 — when the Web was Usenet, the king was CompuServe, ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Sep 9, 2003
Hyperlinks remain legal after Scientology defeat — CNET
Type: Press
Author(s): Matt Hines
Source: CNET
The Church of Scientology has lost a courtroom battle to compel a Dutch writer and her Internet service provider to remove postings from a Web site, in a ruling that keeps hyperlinks to copyrighted material legal. On Friday, the Dutch Court of Appeal in The Hague, Netherlands, denied the Scientologists' latest appeal in an online copyright dispute that dates back to 1995. The Church of Scientology has repeatedly pursued legal action in the Netherlands against the writer, Karin Spaink, and her ...
Sep 8, 2003
Scientology loss keeps hyperlinks legal — CNET
Type: Press
Author(s): Matt Hines
Source: CNET
The Church of Scientology has lost a courtroom battle to compel a Dutch writer and her Internet service provider to remove postings from a Web site, in a ruling that keeps hyperlinks to copyrighted material legal. On Friday, the Dutch Court of Appeal in The Hague, Netherlands, denied the Scientologists' latest appeal in an online copyright dispute that dates back to 1995. The Church of Scientology has repeatedly pursued legal action in the Netherlands against the writer, Karin Spaink, and her ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Mar 13, 2003
Scientology case settled out of court — RTÉ News
Type: Press
Source: RTÉ News
A High Court action for damages by a Dublin sports shop owner against the Church of Scientology has ended after out of court talks. The case taken by Mary Johnston was expected to last until May. However, Mr Justice Peart was told at lunchtime today that the case appeared to be settled. No details of the settlement were disclosed but costs in the action are estimated to be around €2 million. Mary Johnston joined the Church of Scientology in 1992. In ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Nov 19, 2002
How Europeans fight xenophobia in cyberspace — New Zealand Herald
Oct 24, 2002
Free speech feels Net copyright chill — CNET
Type: Press
Author(s): Lisa M. Bowman
Source: CNET
Rick Sanchez thought the bright folks at Mensa International would agree that his Pets or Food Web site was a joke. He was sure that the site's offers of "freshly clubbed" frozen baby seal meat and "a dozen Doberman flank steaks for a Super Bowl party" were a dead giveaway. If not, then surely the site's frisky description of fictional CEO Sydney Zwibel–a "former animal disposal technician," Mensa member and alternate member of the 1984 Olympic Fencing Team–smacked of parody. So ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Oct 24, 2002
Google excludes controversial sites — ZDNet
Type: Press
Author(s): Declan McCullagh
Source: ZDNet
Google, the world's most popular search engine, has quietly deleted more than 100 controversial sites from some search result listings. Absent from Google's French and German listings are Web sites that are anti-Semitic, pro-Nazi, or related to white supremacy, according to a new report from Harvard University's Berkman Center. Also banned is Jesus-is-lord.com, a fundamentalist Christian site that is adamantly opposed to abortion. Google confirmed on Wednesday that the sites had been removed from listings available at Google.fr and Google.de. The ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Sep 24, 2002
Net archive silences Scientology critic — CNET
Type: Press
Author(s): Lisa M. Bowman
Source: CNET
Buckling under pressure from the Church of Scientology, the Internet Archive has removed a church critic's Web site from its system. The Internet Archive, a site that preserves snapshots of old Web pages and bills itself as "a library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form," no longer contains links to archival pages of Xenu.net. Instead, surfers are pointed to a page telling them the site was taken down "per the request of the site owner." However, Xenu.net ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Aug 16, 2002
Death of a Scientologist — Chicago Reader
More: scientology-lies.com
Type: Press
Author(s): Tori Marlan
Source: Chicago Reader
Greg Bashaw's father respected him and trusted him to make wise choices. Even after he chose to devote his life to Scientology. While the shock and grief of his son's suicide were still fresh, Bob Bashaw read back through their decades-long correspondence, looking in particular for references to Scientology. "I wanted to see what there was here I missed," he says. His son Greg had been a member of the Church of Scientology for more than 20 years. During that time ...
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Apr 25, 2002
Scientology Church fights Google — BBC News
Type: Press
Author(s): Kevin Anderson
Source: BBC News
The Church of Scientology has taken its long-running battle against the distribution of its material on internet sites - especially sites critical of the church - to Google, one of the most popular search sites on the internet. Google catalogues more than two billion pages on the internet, but cyber civil libertarians cried foul when the site removed links to a website called Operation Clambake, due to a legal challenge from the Church of Scientology. The Operation Clambake site portrays the ...
Apr 22, 2002
New Economy; A copyright dispute with the Church of Scientology is forcing Google to do some creative linking — New York Times
Type: Press
Author(s): David F. Gallagher
Source: New York Times
GOOGLE, the company behind the popular Web search engine, has been playing a complicated game recently that involves the Church of Scientology and a controversial copyright law. Legal experts say the episode highlights problems with the law that can make companies or individuals liable for linking to sites they do not control. And it has turned Google, whose business is built around a database of two billion Web pages, into a quiet campaigner for the freedom to link. The church sent ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Apr 12, 2002
Google Begins Making DMCA Takedowns Public — Linux Journal
Type: Press
Author(s): Don Marti
Source: Linux Journal
Attention DMCA lawyers: Try to remove a web site from Google's index and you'll probably just make it more popular. 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. The full text of two new letters to Google, dated April 9 and 10, ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Mar 22, 2002
Google removes anti-Scientology Web links — CBC News
Type: Press
Source: CBC News
The Google search engine has delisted some Web pages that are critical of the Church of Scientology. Google said it had no choice because the church had threatened legal action if the Web sites stayed listed on Google. Free speech advocates said the law the church used to get the pages removed, the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, is too powerful and may infringe on freedom of speech. The delisted Web pages are on Operation Clambake, a Web site that opposes the ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Mar 22, 2002
Scientologists force closure of ISP's Internet connection — ZDNet
Type: Press
Author(s): Matt Loney
Source: ZDNet
The apparent campaign by the Church of Scientology to stamp out criticism on the Internet resulted in the ISP that hosts a Web site targeted by the Church for its critical standpoint having its upstream connection cut off. Netherlands-based ISP Xtended Internet said its connection to the Internet was terminated by its provider after threats of legal action from the Church. Paul Wouters, managing director of Xtended Internet, said he believed this was the first time an ISP had suffered such ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Mar 21, 2002
Cult forces Google to remove critical links — ZDNet
Type: Press
Author(s): Matt Loney
Source: ZDNet
Google was accused on Wednesday of effectively removing a Web site that is critical of the Scientology cult from the Web, after it told the site that it was deleting links from its search engine. Andreas Heldal-Lund, Webmaster of the Xenu.net Web site, said in a Usenet posting that Google was removing links to the site, which bills itself as Operation Clambake: The fight against the Church of Scientology on the Net. The term Operation Clambake comes in part, according to ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Mar 21, 2002
Google pulls anti-Scientology links — CNET
Type: Press
Author(s): Matt Loney
Source: CNET
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. The popular search company said it removed the links after it received a copyright-infringement complaint from the Church of Scientology. Andreas Heldal-Lund, Webmaster of the site Xenu.net, said in a Usenet posting that the complaint demanded that Google take down a large number of references to ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
May 19, 2001
Online Scientology critic seeks political asylum // Usenet as a 'weapon of terror' — The Register (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s): Thomas C. Greene
Source: The Register (UK)
A couple of weeks ago computer engineer Keith Henson was found guilty in California of a criminal act related to posts he made in the newsgroup alt.religion.scientology, which contained obviously comical (all right, Sophomoric) references to targeting Scientologists with a nuclear missile. The jury convicted him of interfering with a religion — likely due to his habit of picketing near the cult's properties — but failed to reach a decision on two other patently idiotic charges brought by Deputy District Attorney ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Mar 17, 2001
Xenu do, but not on Slashdot — Wired
Type: Press
Author(s): Declan McCullagh
Source: Wired
The geek-culture destination Slashdot.org said on Friday that it deleted a post in response to legal threats from the Church of Scientology. Scientology's notoriously litigious team of attack attorneys successfully pressured the site's editors into erasing a discussion board message, which allegedly contained copyrighted material. "While Slashdot is an open forum and we encourage free discussion and sharing of ideas, our lawyers have advised us that, considering all the details of this case, the comment should come down," co-founder Rob "CmdrTaco" ...
Mar 16, 2001
Scientologists force comment off Slashdot — Slashdot
Type: Press
Source: Slashdot
Last Saturday a comment was posted here by an anonymous reader that contained text that was copyrighted by the Church of Scientology. They have since followed the DMCA and demanded that we remove the comment. While Slashdot is an open forum and we encourage free discussion and sharing of ideas, our lawyers have advised us that, considering all the details of this case, the comment should come down. Read on to understand what this means. This is the first time since ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Mar 16, 2001
Slashdot caves in to Scientology loonies / Chief Rob Bended-Knee wants your sympathy — The Register (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s): Thomas C. Greene
Source: The Register (UK)
Geek paradise Slashdot has taken the unprecedented step of removing a post which contained text allegedly copyrighted by the 'Church' of Scientology, after receiving threats from Hubbard Space Command shysters citing the dreaded Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). "Our lawyers have advised us that, considering all the details of this case, the comment should come down," Slashdot founder Rob Malda aka CmdrTaco regrets to announce. "Last Saturday a comment was posted here by an anonymous reader that contained text that was ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Mar 23, 2000
The gospel of the web / Nick Ryan on the holy wars fought in cyberspace between religious movements and their critics — The Guardian (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s): Nick Ryan
Source: The Guardian (UK)
Nick Ryan on the holy wars fought in cyberspace between religious movements and their critics Religion in the UK: special report August 12 1995 was a Saturday much like any other in the urban sprawl of Arlington, Virginia. Except that an alert went out over email and on Usenet groups to say that 10 people - including two federal marshals, two computer technicians, one a former FBI agent, and several attorneys - were raiding the home of former Scientologist Arnaldo Lerma. ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
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