Comments on: Google pulls anti-Scientology links

The popular search service removes links to pages that hold material copyrighted by the Church of Scientology, underscoring potential conflicts between the DMCA and free speech.

[crst]

What's next? Remove all links to HISTORYOLOGY?

Yeah - I much prefer Historyologists to Scientologists.

The Church of Historyology: http://creativestudios.com/?p=7

[mynetics]

Will they take down Mynetics next? http://www.mynetics.org

I like the Mynetics folks better than The Scientology folks.

[Viva_La_Rob]

Striaght Up Cult

Scientology is obviously a cult. I don't understand how people can not see this. All I know is that it needs to be stopped and I will personally back any operation to, in their own words, "destroy" it's existence.

[dirtyanon]

Any organization the supports a cult needs to be boycotted.

Stop using google search. Sell your google stock. Ditch your gmail account & google homepage.

PICK a replacement for the above and we all need to promote it as a anti-cult alternative.

[dirtyanon]

hold the boycott.. google fight back at the Co$...

While Google complied with the church's request, it also quietly began to defend its freedom to link.

Now, the church's tactics might have backfired, because when the search site receives a request to remove a link, it also forwards a copy of the legal request to a civil liberties site called chillingeffects.org.

Google still links to Operation Clambake's homepage and Google's search results are based in part on links to a site.

Due to the media attention brought by the case more sites now link to Operation Clambake and a search for information on Scientology now brings up the site second only to the church's official homepage.

[mynetics]

What about the new Mynetics? http://www.mynetics.org
This is a self help site to ease stress and other mind alements.

[William143603]

really, scientology is all a joke. who the hell beieves something like that. i do not 'dislike' other religions because they have an backed up story of how we came to be on the planet earth. scientology is a load of ******** and all that beleive in this crap is so very fortunate i am not in charge of your country because if i was i would start with immediate action towards this...........there would be NONE of u left.

[William143603]

scientology is a load of ****. it doesnt tell us anything even close to believable about how we got to earth. who in thier right, unclouded mind would believe in this? all that believe in scientology are so very fortunate that i am not in charge here, because if i was......................there would be NONE of you left.

[MSpaz71]

I am VERY disappointed by Google's actions regarding the Church of $cientology. Not only did they remove the above-mentioned links but they continually CANCEL the you-tube accounts of those who produce anti-$cientology videos. Do they cancel anything pro-$cientology? Hell, no! It's truly a shame when a company like google, with their vast resources, would run and hide from the Co$ like a bunch of cowards. Shame on you Google! Innocent children are being horribly mistreated DAILY because of the Co$. Since the execs at Google are clearly NOT part of the solution, this only makes them part of the problem.
"All that is Required for Evil to Prevail is for Good Men to do Nothing." -Edmund Burke

[tgrimreefer]

I believe the definition of a cult are: 1: formal religious veneration : worship 2: a system of religious beliefs and ritual ; also : its body of adherents 3: a religion regarded as unorthodox or spurious ; also : its body of adherent s 4: a system for the cure of disease based on dogma set forth by its promulgator <health cults> 5 a: great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work (as a film or book) ; especially : such devotion regarded as a literary or intellectual fad b: the object of such devotion c: a usually small group of people characterized by such devotion---- as of merriam-webster....
Anyway of these definitions, the 3rd is the one I am assuming you are referring to when you say they are "obviously a cult".
By that same definition (including the first to also)... I would say every religion is a cult?they are ALL spurious. I seem to hate scientology as much as everyone else here, and maybe it is the craziest premise for a religion.... but seriously, cannibalizing your god every sunday? koshering your meat by hanging it upside down and slitting its throat? 72 virgins for blowing yourself up? coming back as an ant or a sea urchin because you failed your gods and couldn't attain moksha? Living in the 1600s perpetually? ETC ETC ETC
ALL religions are ******* insane and based on spurious, irrational beliefs and immoral "morality", every religion with an "s" in it should be replaced with that $ sign you guys seem so fond of using for scientology, because they are ALL cons for money, power or manipulation of the masses.

[Jeff_Smado]

"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."

Turns out they did but that they were overdoing what was asked from them by the Church of Scientology (that tried to get a page or two down that had copyrighted material on them).

Anyway, it's 2009 now, and Scientology.org has this nice ad campaign running that brought me here(via Computerworld.com).

[Tom9595]

Only criminals post copyrighted material on the internet. No two ways about it.
I have been a scientologist for 23 years. My life has continuously improved. The above negative posts are, I guess, from religious zealots who prefer to attack an organization that is doing an immense amount of good in the world, than do something about it themselves. Ask yourselves, attackers, What are YOU doing? We are creating literacy programs that teach little kids to read, who would not have otherwise had the chance, bringing legal drug pushers under control, exposing abusive psych hospital practices, exposing human rights atrocities, promoting ethical behavior, freedom to chose in religion, and many other things.
And, If you find it impossible to live and let live, you have a problem, And it isn't Scientology.

[wantmyownreligion]

Wow, what a plethera of accomplshments for an alien society. If you've been a member for 23 years, you need to swap to my First Church of Jimmy Buffett. Your religion has really done NOTHING and will continue to do NOTHING! Most religion is hoaky, but COS takes the cake for crap for religion. Think i will write a Bible for my new church called, "Humans are from Earth, Scientologists are from Krypton", or was that Superman? Does he)Superman of course) have a religion? My religion involves tequila and a beach of naked girls....hmmmm No money...no training...and no BS!!! And you guys formed a religion off of copyrighted material. OH yeah, L. Ron signed it over from Krypton right?

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[wantmyownreligion]

I am going to start the First Church of Jimmy Buffett. All it requires is flip-flops, margaritas, and some weed. We all read "A Piece of Salty Land" and talk about crazy people and actors who believe we came from a spaceship. Me, I crawled from the ocean, not from Krypton. And my religion will be free, and all services are beachside... we can even move to Clearwater, Fla., they may have some building space for lease soon!