Church of Scientology International Vice President on the Scientology-Google controversy. [The Mercury News]

"The Church of Scientology has abused the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) to get Google to remove a bunch of links. Google caved at once, even though they claim that they do not remove pages." News and reader discussion. [Kuro5hin]

Update on the status of xenu.net. The majority of the pages are still censored, though the front page has been relisted. The Church of Scientology's notification of a DMCA violation is spurious since it claims a trademark infringement not a copyright infringement. [Microcontent News]

Long article on the popular search engine Google, attempts of webmasters to boost ratings, Scientology's use of copyright law to muzzle critics. Questions raised by Scientology's using the DMCA to remove critics from search engine database. [Microcontent News]

"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 accused of censorship for removing links to a site critical of Scientology from the search engine and its directory. Raises the question of how many other sites may be missing. [InfoAnarchy]

Press release from Fight Against Coercive Tactics Network.

Copy of the letter from Church of Scientology law firm Moxon & Kobrin, demanding that Google remove xenu.net.

"Any yahoo (no pun intended) can now have other people's materials removed from any search tool, just by writing a spurious poison-pen letter." [Boing Boing]

"The search engine Google is censoring the Internet's leading critic of the Church of Scientology, Operation Clambake." [Daily Rotten]

"Google has chosen to block Operation Clambake from their search results." News and reader discussion. [kuro5hin]

Summary and analysis of the Xenu.net removal. [Search Engine Watch]

Google has made public the letter it received from Scientology lawyers demanding it remove critical content from its search engine, complete with a list of allegedly infringing URLs. [SearchDay]

Short note about Google linking to DMCA claims from Scientology lawyers, followed by lively discussion. [Slashdot]

"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]

Article with comments from a Google spokesperson, a Scientology lawyer, and a staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. By Elinor Mills Abreu. [Reuters]

"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]

The Church of Scientology threatened legal action under the DMCA against Google unless the search engine removed sites critical of Scientology. [CBC News]

Google's swift removal of anti-Scientology sites is only a tip of the iceberg. Search engines cannot be trusted as long as the DMCA forces providers to cut off materials on a mere allegation, under threat of legal action. [Geek.com]

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]

Discussion of a New York Times story on the Church of Scientology's DMCA complaints and Google's response. [Slashdot]

The Church of Scientology has managed to remove references to anti-Scientology sites from Google, by citing the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act. [Wired]

Dave Winer writes that Google's banning of a site critical of Scientology is the first scene in a Constitutional nightmare. The DMCA threatens freedom of speech. [CNET News.com]

News brief misascribing cause of removal to "googlebombing", and ensuing reader discussion.

"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]

Letter to Google from Church of Scientology, demands the removal of clambake.org, a mirror of Operation Clambake.

Religious Technology Center (Church of Scientology) tells Google to yank a Norwegian personal page.

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.

Helena Kobrin writes that her firm is merely protecting intellectual property rights. [Linux Journal]

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]

Examines Google's response to Scientology's DMCA claims. Quotes lawyers for Google, the Church of Scientology, Ask Jeeves, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. [Corporate Counsel]