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| | 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). (November 4, 1996)
http://www.csj.org/announce/annoucement_archives/can.html |
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| | Cult church censured on drug ads |
| | 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] (March 27, 2003)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,922770,00.html |
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| | 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] (August 5, 2001)
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2178956&BRD=1697&PAG=461&dept_id=44551&rfi=6 |
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| | 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] (April 28, 2000)
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/04/27/1712248 |
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| | 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] (February 21, 2002)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,653557,00.html |
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| | 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] (November 5, 2000)
http://slashdot.org/yro/00/11/05/1335233.shtml |
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| | German Visitor Takes on Scientology |
| | German official Ursula Caberta reports that in her country, Scientology is viewed as "a new kind of political extremism." [St. Petersburg Times] (July 26, 2000)
http://www.sptimes.com/News/072600/NorthPinellas/German_visitor_takes_.shtml |
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| | German Win2K Bug: Scientology? |
| | 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] (December 21, 1999)
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,33154,00.html |
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| | 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] (April 12, 2002)
http://linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5997 |
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| | 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] (April 13, 2002)
http://www.infoanarchy.org/story/2002/4/13/1258/31858 |
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