by jw07 12 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
I was speaking to a group of uber-dubs over the weekend, and one of them was mentioning no-nonse policies at Bethel, one of them being the monitoring of website visits.
He was saying that you had to 'freedom' to do certain things, like use the internet, BUT if you visited "the wrong websites" you would face consequences. He mentioned the case of a brother who visited the "wrong website" a few days in and was immediately sent home.
Can anyone shed ****new light**** on this? :-)
It is super easy to monitor web usage over wifi router. Not so if using the old dial up, or a hardwired connection.
It is absolutely guaranteed that the web traffic is monitored at bethel sites. if you want the internal memos and proceedures then i doubt you will be in luck.
Any bethelite who thinks otherwise is in for a surprise.
Was he caught watching their own sign-language videos?
I would be surprised if it wasn't.
that's what the tor network was invented for. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_routing
Yep, there's a filter on all Bethel internet. Porn sites are on the blacklist and all apostate sites, I actually tried visiting this site once and got a warning (and was never questioned about it, all I had to say though was "oops i clicked the wrong link, the URL was too similar to our official website, etc."). Basically you just get a blank page that says "Site forbidden: [reason, e.g. porn, apostate site, etc.]" and have to go back. However, your history is saved on the WT's servers and the Computer Department reviews your history every few months (or weeks). Also, I used torrents and other file sharing sites and never got in trouble.
If you're found to be looking at porn, the Computer Department tells your overseer. You are then summoned to meet with your overseer, who will question you over why you're looking at porn. The branch committee will then decide if you get to stay or not, in 95% of all cases IMO you're kicked out. Old man Max Larson (former printery overseer in the U.S.) supposedly said during a morning worship session that in the U.S., there's at least 2 cases per week of someone at Bethel getting caught trying to or successfuly viewing internet porn (by somehow bypassing the filter), and one time there were 7 cases in a week to deal with or something like that.
So there's lots of horny guys in bethel. Also, the WT's IPs actually say they're registered to the WT, and there was an internal letter about how you should keep that in mind when using the Internet at bethel.
The local Kingdom Hall has wi-fi and the password was given during a Service Meeting part on using the internet. A friend who is still an elder revealed that it has been discovered on their server that someone at the KHall was viewing JWN JWFACTS and JWLEAKS. The password has been changed.
Doc
That's awesome DOC. The last few times I went to a meeting I spent most of my time on jwn and jwfacts.
