Previous Politech message: "An open letter to the Internet Archive on Scientology and the DMCA" http://www.politechbot.com/p-04021.html --- From: Dave_Touretzkyat_private To: declanat_private Subject: they blocked my ENTIRE web site Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 21:33:14 -0400 ARCHIVE.ORG has blocked my entire web site: all of www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst [cmu.edu]. My home page. My list of professional publications. My research project web pages. The Gallery of CSS Descramblers. Tutorial pages, Lisp book, everything I've written. I don't exist. I've never existed. I've been erased from Internet history. All because I dared to have some anti-Scientology material on my web site. ARCHIVE.ORG boasts a relationship with the Lbrary of Congress and with the National Science Foundation. I wonder if they are receiving any government funding. Surely it is impermissible to do the bidding of an abusive cult, at the expense of honest citizens, while taking government money? -- Dave Touretzky --- Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 15:36:27 -0700 To: Declan McCullagh <declanat_private> From: Kristi Wachter <info@scientology-lies.com> Hello Declan, After noticing a decline in activity on my www.truthaboutscientology.com site over the past week, I did a quick Google search and discovered that pages that were found with Google just a week ago are no longer appearing in their search results. I suspect that Scientology has complained to Google, but the Google searches do not show any DMCA complaints or other indications that the results are incomplete. I have received no complaints from Scientology lawyers about copyright infringements at either of my Scientology-related sites, www.scientology-lies.com or www.truthaboutscientology.com, although I have received a trademark infringement notice. I responded to that complaint (http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/ceaseanddesist.htm), pointing out that under the Lanham Act my non-commercial site is not infringing, and the letter is webbed at my site at at the Chilling Effects site. (I have also webbed my correspondence with Google over their refusal to run ads for my sites at http://www.scientology-lies.com/google.html.) I am aware of Scientology's extremely litigious history, so, like many critics, I'm very careful about copyright issues. I have taken great care to stay well within fair use guidelines, and I do not believe anything on either of my sites comes anywhere near copyright infringement. I have just sent feedback to Google asking whether I've been delisted, and I am currently waiting for a response. I think I will suggest to Google that they require DMCA complainants to certify that they have sent DMCA complaints directly to US-based site owners before complaining to Google. If the Church of Scientology isn't going to complain directly to me, they shouldn't complain to Google. I will let you know when I have further information. Thank you, Kristi Kristi Wachter the activist formerly known as "Jour" (until $cientology outed me) I think $cientology is hurting people and breaking the law, and I want them to stop it. See http://www.scientology-lies.com for more. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ Recent CNET News.com articles: http://news.search.com/search?q=declan -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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