MeanMrMustard : So it was Furuli, after getting DFed himself, that got this ball rolling ... after decades of enforcing shunning and towing the WT line.
Furuli maintains in his blog My Beloved Religion that 32 of the 43 disfellowshipping offences mentioned in Shepherd the Flock of God are made up by the GB and have no Bible backing. He also maintains that neither shunning nor disassociation are based on the Bible. Whether or not he enforced shunning and towing the WT line before being disfellowshipped I do not know.