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- A Mother's Betrayal by the New CAN - Since Scientology has taken over the old Cult Awareness Network, parents have contacted human rights group TranceNet with horror stories. CAN is now merely a front group for Scientology.
trancenet.org/groups/can.shtml
- Amazon to restore Scientology title - Responding to customer criticism, Amazon.com said it will restore a book critical of Scientology to its list of available titles. [CNET News.com]
news.com.com/2100-1017-226171.html
- Articles on Scientology in UK Media - A personal selection of articles from national and local UK press, radio and television concerning L. Ron Hubbard's cult of Scientology.
www.demon.co.uk/castle/media.html
- Been there, done that: Scientology - A mother tells of how she nearly lost her son to the Scientologists. [The Times]
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,7-82577,00.html
- Brained - Mentally-impaired Raul Lopez was $1.7 million richer as the result of an accident settlement--until he joined the Church of Scientology. [New Times Los Angeles]
www.newtimesla.com/issues/2000-12-21/feature.html/page1.html
- BU's Scientology Connection - Earle Cooley is chairman of Boston University's board of trustees. He's also made a career out of keeping L. Ron Hubbard's secrets, by raiding critics and suing journalists. [Boston Phoenix]
www.bostonphoenix.com/alt1/archive/specials/scientology/SCIENTOLOGY_1.html
- Church 'fails test' for charity status - The Charity Commission ruled that the Church of Scientology fails to promote the moral and spiritual welfare of the community, does not confer a public benefit, and was not established for the advancement of religion, and therefore is ineligible to become a registered charity in the U.K. [Sunday Times]
www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/99/12/10/timnwsnws01027.html?999
- Church of Scientology Pays $8.7 Million to Ex-Member - Thought to be the first time the Church of Scientology has paid a judgement to an ex-member. Lawrence Wollersheim sued, claiming mental abuse by the church, and won. [Reuters]
www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/3245385.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp
- Church of Scientology Settles Case - In 1986, a jury awarded Lawrence Wollersheim damages in a suit he filed against the Church of Scientology. Sixteen years later, Scientology officials finally wrote a check to end the case. [Associated Press]
www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-1726623,00.html
- Church of Scientology wields the DMCA, Google removes xenu.net - Anti-Scientology site suddenly disappeared from Google. The reason: the search engine buckled to the Church of Scientology's abuse of the DMCA to silence critics. [Kuro5hin]
www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/3/21/8503/37759
- Church v Google, round 2 - Although xenu.net is once again listed in Google, the core issue has not changed: the Church of Scientology is using the DMCA to censor its critics. And, through sleight of hand, Scientology tries to apply copyright law to alleged infringement of trademarks in meta tags. [Microcontent News]
microcontentnews.com/articles/googleupdate.htm
- Church v. Google: How the Church of Scientology is Forcing Google to Censor its Critics - 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]
www.microcontentnews.com/articles/googlechurch.htm
- Clams Pay Wollersheim - After a vicious 22-year legal battle, the Church of Scientology finally paid Lawrence Wollersheim $8.7 million they owed him from a lawsuit judgment. [Kuro5hin]
www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/5/10/104726/587
- Cult Abuse Victim Wins [Euro]6M Payout - The Church of Scientology has been ordered to pay 6 million euros in damages to a former member who claimed they pushed him to the brink of suicide. [The Daily Record]
www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/page.cfm?objectid=11860716&method=full
- Cult Awareness Network and Scientology - On October 23, 1996 the law firm which has represented the Church of Scientology for years purchased the logo and license agreement of the Cult Awareness Network (CAN).
www.csj.org/announce/annoucement_archives/can.html
- Do You Want to Buy a Bridge? - An article by Mark Ebner, concerning his two-week initiation into Scientology. [Spy Magazine]
www.drasticmedia.com/Scientology.html
- Doc suspended for prescribing Valium - The Florida Board of Medicine suspends Scientologist Dr. David I. Minkoff's medical license for one year, and furthermore rules that he is on probation for two years after that. [Associated Press]
www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2178956&BRD=1697&PAG=461&dept_id=44551&rfi=6
- eBay E-Meter Auctions Yanked - Although anyone can buy an e-meter, eBay has yanked auctions of e-meters after the Church of Scientology claimed that copyright protection applies to the devices under the provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. [Slashdot]
slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/04/27/1712248
- France puts Scientology sect on trial - The Church of Scientology has been charged with abuse of civil liberties and attempted fraud, in the first French court case against the organisation rather than its individual members. [The Guardian]
www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,653557,00.html
- French Court Finds Church of Scientology Guilty of Breaching Privacy Laws - A French court fined the Church of Scientology for violating the privacy rights of former members, although prosecutors failed to convict on charges of attempted fraud and false advertising. [Voice of America News]
www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=1D964FEC-B042-423B-9CB06A5E91A45062&title=French%20Court%20Finds%20Church%20of%20Scientology%20Guilty%20Of%20Breaching%20Privacy%20Laws&catOID=45C9C784-88AD-11D4-A57200A0CC5EE46C
- FRG on W2K: No CoS - Readers discuss Microsoft's decision to provide instructions to Germans on how to remove defrag from Win2K because the software developer's CEO is a Scientologist. The security risk is no joke. [Slashdot]
slashdot.org/yro/00/11/05/1335233.shtml
- German Scientology News - Newspaper articles translated into English, special reports.
www.cisar.org
- Gimme That High-Tech Religion - "Last month, a new series of 'high-tech career nights' kicked off in Silicon Valley with an unlikely sponsor: the Church of Scientology." [The Industry Standard]
www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,6134,00.html
- Google Begins Making DMCA Takedowns Public - Search engine Google is posting "takedown" letters from lawyers wielding the DMCA. The move is thought to be a response to criticism of their censoring xenu.net at the behest of Scientology. [Linux Journal]
linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5997
- Google Does the Right Thing (Finally) - After protests, Google restored xenu.net's main page, but none of the subpages. The search engine's decision to publish the DMCA complaints, with URLs, is a smart move. [infoAnarchy]
www.infoanarchy.org/story/2002/4/13/1258/31858
- Google keeps the faith with the Church of Scientology - Search engine straddles the fence, both giving in to the demands of the "vicious and dangerous cult" and furnishing the text of the complaints to an anti-DMCA site. [Silicon.com]
www.searchutilities.com/news/archive/51/1538.html
- Google Relists Operation Clambake - After a furor over Google's removal of xenu.net from its database, the search engine relisted it--but only the main page. The other pages named in Scientology's DMCA complaint are still banned from Google. [Slashdot]
slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/03/22/0141250
- Google U-turn in Scientology row - Google reinstated a link to an anti-Scientology site after coming under fire from free speech advocates. [Silicon.com]
www.silicon.com/public/door?6004REQEVENT=&REQINT1=52212&REQSTR1=silicon.com
- Google versus Church, round 3 - Google now refuses to accept paid advertising for sites critical of Scientology. They are willing to accept payment from the Church of Scientology, however. [Microcontent News]
microcontentnews.com/articles/googleround3.htm
- Hubbard's Scientology is the practice of crazies - Warns college students about the deceptive cult of Scientology, a greedy corporation which is almost the exact opposite of a religion. [Daily Cougar]
www.stp.uh.edu/vol68/8/opinion/oped3.html
- Hush-Hush Money - An anti-Scientology activist claims that the church made him an offer he had to refuse: $12 million. [Westword]
www.westword.com/issues/1997-08-14/news.html
- Inside the Cult - Description of a half-hour documentary on Scientology. [The Big Story]
www.b-org.demon.nl/scn/deaths/others/ctv9507013.html
- Leaving the Fold - Third-generation Scientologist, disillusioned, broke away from the Church of Scientology. In turn, they declared her father a "suppressive person" and tried to paint her as an extortionist. [San Francisco Chronicle]
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/02/12/MN171898.DTL
- Lev L'Achim Launches Campaign to Fight Scientology - The cult of Scientology is dangerous to the human mind, harmful to one's pocketbook, and uses deception to violate laws against forced religious conversion. [Dei'ah veDibur]
www.shemayisrael.com/chareidi/archives5761/shemini/SMIlevlchm.htm
- Lev L'Achim Wages Battle Against Scientology Cult - Lev L'Achim's Anti-Cult Department attempts to close a school opened by the cult of Scientology in Tel Aviv. The Education Ministry officially announced that the school will never be licensed, and that parents who send their children there are violating the Law of Compulsory Education. [Dei'ah veDibur]
www.shemayisrael.com/chareidi/BRalevlachim.htm
- Newspaper & Magazine Articles on Scientology - Plus a little bit of radio and TV. Part of Ron Newman's "The Church of Scientology vs. the Net".
www2.thecia.net/users/rnewman/scientology/media/home.html
- Nightmare on the Net - A web of intrigue surrounds the high-stakes legal brawl between FACTnet and the Church of Scientology. [Westword]
www.westword.com/issues/1997-03-06/feature2.html/page1.html
- Perspectives on church clash: Ex-member claims he was locked up - Article based on several interviews with Jesse Prince, former Inspector General of Scientology's Religious Technology Center, who says that when he tried to escape, he was kidnapped and forcibly detained. [Battle Creek Enquirer]
www.battlecreekenquirer.com/news/stories/20010225/localnews/310879.html
- Picket Fencing - Profile of Jeff Jacobsen, a critic of Scientology. [Phoenix New Times]
www.phoenixnewtimes.com/issues/1999-01-21/feature2.html
- Scientologist Web site rips off urban75.com - The self-styled addiction "experts" at Scientology front group Narconon stole graphics, navigation, stylesheets, layout, code, everything, from a popular rave web site. . . and added a rat-on-your-friends form. [The Register]
www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/16273.html
- Scientologists accused of misrepresenting selves during crisis - The National Mental Health Association accuses the Church of Scientology of attempting to recruit members under the guise of providing mental health counseling after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. [Associated Press]
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2001/09/17/state2121EDT0127.DTL
- Scientologists Force Comment Off Slashdot - The Church of Scientology alleged that an anonymous comment violated their copyright. Under the terms of the DMCA, Slashdot was forced to remove the offending post--but listed links to many anti-Scientology sites. Readers responded with more than 1500 comments. [Slashdot]
slashdot.org/articles/01/03/16/1256226.shtml
- Scientologists gag Google - Search engine Google caved in to demands from the "Church" of Scientology that it delete URLs pointing to a site critical of the cult. [The Register]
www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/24533.html
- Scientologists in trademark disputes - Church of Scientology International threatens to sue two sites critical of it, on grounds of alleged trademark and copyright violations. [CNET news.com]
news.com.com/2100-1023-207618.html
- Scientology Doctor Faces Suspension - Judge rules that Dr. David Minkoff illegally prescribed Valium and chloral hydrate to Lisa McPherson at the behest of fellow Scientologists, and recommends a $10,000 fine and one-year license suspension. [Tampa Tribune]
www.lisamcpherson.org/tt_7-25-01_minkoff.htm
- Scientology link to drug case keeps jurors from reaching verdict - Jurors in a misdemeanor case against Jesse Prince, a critic of the Church of Scientology, were unable to reach a verdict after some on the panel suspected the church had set him up. The vote was deadlocked at 4-2 in favor of acquittal. [Associated Press]
www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/apnews/stories/052501/D7C78G4G1.html
- Scientology ordered to stop harassment - A Florida appeals court has ordered the Church of Scientology to stop harassing the estate of Lisa McPherson. [ABC 28 News]
www.wfts.com/stories/020405scientology.shtml
- Scientology Uses DMCA to Delist Critic's Website - The Church of Scientology used the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to strong-arm search engine Google into removing several pages of anti-Scientology site xenu.net from search results and directory. [Slashdot]
slashdot.org/yro/02/03/21/0453200.shtml
- Scientology's Internet Wars - Scientology is locked in an international legal war to remove copies of their super-secret "scriptures" from the Internet, obtaining federal court orders to raid and confiscate the homes and offices of four of their most vocal critics. [The Watchman Expositor]
www.watchman.org/sci/c0$p1.htm
- Scientology's War Against Judges - The Scientologists' "attack" litigation strategy amounts to an all-out war on district court judges, including harassment, contempt, and recusal motions. [The American Lawyer]
alfa.ist.utl.pt/~dif/ic/courts/judges.htm
- See You in Court - Ron Hubbard was dead but the Scientologists were still out to make their mark on the world. Starting with unauthorized biographer Russell Miller. [Punch]
www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/bfm/punch.htm
- Slashdot caves in to Scientology loonies - 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). [The Register]
www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/17677.html
- Spirituality in cyberspace - From the pope to practicing pagans, virtually every religious body maintains a Web site. . . from the Church of Scientology to UFO-worshiping cults. [MSNBC]
zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-513236.html
- Stalking the Net - In the online brawl over Scientology, Internet users discover that virtual reality bites back. [Westword]
www.westword.com/issues/1995-10-04/feature.html/page1.html
- Sympathy for the Devil - Long article on the defection of a 30-year member of the Church of Scientology. [New Times Los Angeles]
www.newtimesla.com/issues/2001-09-27/feature.html/page1.html
- Testimony: Church of Scientology spurred critic's arrest - Private detectives employed by Scientology law firm Moxon & Kobrin trailed critic Jesse Prince for months before succeeding in getting him arrested. [Tampa Tribune]
lisatrust.freewinds.cx/print/tampa-jesse-052301.htm
- The Church of Scientology - Tom Jarriel talks with both insiders and critics, but Scientology comes off looking very bad. Transcript. [ABC 20/20]
www.skeptictank.org/hs/2020.htm
- The Prisoners of Saint Hill - The Scientologists call it 'baby-watching', but it has nothing to do with looking after infants. Tim Kelsey and Mike Ricks investigate the potentially dangerous, and possibly illegal, secret treatment that the world's largest cult uses to deal with difficult members. [The Independent II]
www.factnet.org/Scientology/sainthil.htm
- Unfair Game: Scientologists Get Their Man - Feature story concentrates on Keith Henson's misdemeanor conviction for picketing Scientology, and airs the belief that the Church of Scientology considers critics and ex-members to be "fair game" for harassment and injury. [L.A. Weekly]
www.laweekly.com/ink/01/31/news-holland.shtml
- Whacking Google - Google's reputation for meaningful search results and targeted text ads took a nosedive among its fans when the search engine kowtowed to Scientology and refused ads from critics. [Tech Central Station]
www.techcentralstation.com/1051/techwrapper.jsp?PID=1051-250&CID=1051-040402B
- Xenu TV - Brings you the most comprehensive video coverage of Scientology on the web. [RealVideo format]
www.xenutv.com
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