Wayback Machine Purged of Scientology Criticism

muldrake writes "The Wayback Machine, an archive of websites as they appeared in their past incarnations, is reported by CNET in this story as having censored the Scientology-critical Xenu.net, in a repeat of the heavy-handed tactics used against Google as reported in this previous Slashdot thread."

Just another in a series.

[rpresser]

It's very typical of the Church's actions; it's very typical of reactions to the Church's actions; and the next obvious step is public pressure from those who have an opinion, resulting in a very typical denoument: reversal of the removal. Ah, this was probably a very typical comment, adding nothing of interest. Go ahead and mod it down.

Slashdot..

[Galahad2]

Wow.. Slashdot has looked the same for ever . I guess us nerds like to be mired in traditio... er... consistant. I mean, without the dates, old news, and missing images, I don't know if I could tell the difference.

Travolta...

[Dareth]

He promised not to make any more movies if they removed the complaints....

All together not a bad deal!!!

God Damn these Scientologists!!!

[RestiffBard]

oh, wait. he already has.

In an odd twist of irony

[goodchef]

If you want your site removed from the archive, their FAQ [archive.org] refers you to their removing documents page [archive.org]... which comes back with a "page not found" error.

This might be the stark fist of removal

[sawilson]

that the church of the subgenius tells us to
beware of. It's a much more logical church
than the SoC. Some examples:

"You'd PAY to know what you REALLY think." --Dobbs 1961

"This is the original Time Control program that has helped thousands to fear no longer the STARK FIST of REMOVAL."

"Follow your FOLLIES and COMPULSIONS and become rich like us"

http://www.subgenius.com/

Many many similarities actually. And it's easy
to become an ordained minister. Check it out.

Re:What the hay?-MS

[Anonymous Coward]

"They have a deep understanding of the power and reach of the legal system. They also have deep pockets to finance squelching operations. "

Kind of like Microsoft.

Re:Is this really supposed to help?

[CleverNickName]

Score this as yet another victory for "Operation Footbullet."

Somebody call Alanis Morisette...

[TrebleJunkie]

...because this is just fucking ironic.

The Wayback Machine is quite possibly the GREATEST example of copyright violation on the web. They steal damn near every piece of content on the web and call it a "library." Guess what folks? A *real* library pays for most, if not all, of it's content. (At the very least, they obtain their content by considerably more legal methods: grants, donations, interlibrary loans, etc... They don't just take a shopvac into a book store and suck up everything in sight.)

And to see them remove one person on the basis of possible copyright violations (note to all: the Xenu guys is most likely a nut; it's not like I'm crusading for the guy.), that's just rich, man.

Re:Consequences.

[Derleth]

And at that point, when said person has nothing much to live for anymore and certainly nothing to lose, Scientology HQ will go up in a big orange-red ball of ammonium nitrate and diesel oil.

And then Scientologists learn what Hindus have known for centuries: Karma's a bitch.

Frankly, I'm surprised that it hasn't happened already. But with their present behavior, it's only a matter of time.

Ya ain't whistlin' Dixie.