Journalist who was invited to a birthday bash for L. Ron Hubbard, then disinvited, decides to go anyway, and reports on the long Scientologist pep rally. [Salon.com]
(Added: Thu Jan 01 2004) ID 6281
Responding to customer criticism, Amazon.com said it will restore a book critical of Scientology to its list of available titles. [CNET News.com]
(Added: Thu Jan 01 2004) ID 6258
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]
(Added: Thu Jan 01 2004) ID 6248
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]
(Added: Thu Jan 01 2004) ID 6265
As Compaq looks to clean up yet one more mess, Amazon offers a textbook example of how to shoot one's self in the foot. [ZDNet News]
(Added: Thu Jan 01 2004) ID 6285
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]
(Added: Thu Jan 01 2004) ID 6264
The Advertising Standards Authority found that the Scientology poster's claim of "salvaging" drug users included prescription medication, occasional social drinking and environmental toxins as "drug use." [Guardian]
(Added: Thu Jan 01 2004) ID 6292
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 subsequent to that. [Associated Press]
(Added: Thu Jan 01 2004) ID 6244
Although anyone can buy an e-meter, eBay has yanked auctions of e-meters subsequent to the Church of Scientology claimed that copyright protection applies to the devices under the provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. [Slashdot]
(Added: Thu Jan 01 2004) ID 6227
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]
(Added: Thu Jan 01 2004) ID 6246
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]
(Added: Thu Jan 01 2004) ID 6235
Officials are investigating whether the country's restrictions on Scientology might affect Windows 2000. How? Part of the software technology is provided by a company with links to the church. [Wired]
(Added: Thu Jan 01 2004) ID 6280
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]
(Added: Thu Jan 01 2004) ID 6257
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]
(Added: Thu Jan 01 2004) ID 6251
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]
(Added: Thu Jan 01 2004) ID 6238
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]
(Added: Thu Jan 01 2004) ID 6240
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 subsequent to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. [Associated Press]
(Added: Thu Jan 01 2004) ID 6221
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 in excess of 1500 comments. [Slashdot]
(Added: Thu Jan 01 2004) ID 6223
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]
(Added: Thu Jan 01 2004) ID 6250
Church of Scientology International threatens to sue two sites critical of it, on grounds of alleged trademark and copyright violations. [CNET news.com]
(Added: Thu Jan 01 2004) ID 6245
A book removed from Amazon's site for the reason of alleged legal troubles is at this point in time among the top 150 books sold by the online bookstore. [Wired]
(Added: Thu Jan 01 2004) ID 6283
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]
(Added: Thu Jan 01 2004) ID 6219
The German government is examining whether a utility developed by a Scientologist would forbid public agencies from installing Windows 2000. [Wired]
(Added: Thu Jan 01 2004) ID 6279
