Good Press Google.com deserves applause for deciding to publicize requests for censorship on it search site based on the DMCA. It's turned out that several of the highest profile requests have been from the Church of Scientology against Xenu.net, an investigative (and vocally anti-COS) site that publishes extensive Church of Scientology documents and history plus analysis and investigation of the Church of Scientology. Of course, because of the Google disclosure of the DMCA requests, that site has now gotten attention far beyond what it ever would have earned from its search listings on Google. And with thousands of sites linking (like I just did) to Xenu.net in articles, it's now going to be only one click away from many of the top Google results for Church of Scientology, anyway. I think I like Google more every day.
Note that although Google removed links directly to allegedly copyrighted documents, they retained their links to Xenu.net. With all these articles, it's going to getting closer to topping out the COS's own home page in the Google results.
