Jon O. | 21 Mar 2002 21:23

Visit to Google Today: Chuch of Scientology Uses DMCA to Remove Sites from Google


For those of you in the Bay Area:

----- Forwarded message from Don Marti <dmarti <at> zgp.org> -----
> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 11:03:49 -0800
> From: Don Marti <dmarti <at> zgp.org>
> To: linux-elitists <at> zgp.org
> Subject: [linux-elitists] Forward this!
> 
> IMMEDIATE CALL TO ACTION  -- March 21, 2002 -- IMMEDIATE CALL TO ACTION 
> 
> 
> On March 20th, Google caved in to a baseless legal threat from
> Scientology's "Religious Technology Center", and removed the web
> site xenu.net from all search results.  (Not just the cached pages.
> The links, too.  Try it.)
> 
> The number one site for independent information about the Church of
> Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard, and most important of all, the tyrant
> warlord XENU, has vanished from the number one search engine!
> 
> Since Google's web site is no longer an accurate reflection of the
> state of Xenu (and Scientology) knowledge on the Internet, the
> 
>                       MOUNTAIN VIEW CALIFORNIA
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>                        \ \/ /___ _ __  _   _  
>                         \  // _ \ '_ \| | | |
>                         /  \  __/ | | | |_| |
>                        /_/\_\___|_| |_|\__,_|
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Gmane