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  Electronic Frontier Foundation v Watch Tower Society

  by Corney in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  [disclaimer: the headline is slightly misleading since the eff itself doesn't participate in the case, so read more below].

  it's not a secret that during the last two years watchtower obtained nearly 40 dmca subpoenas requiring google, facebook, instagram, twitter, soundcloud, scribd, reddit and other isps to provide personal information of users that allegedly infringed the society's copyright.. since subpoena proceeding is ex parte, almost all the requests were granted.. but one of the affected users contacted, on advice of youtube's legal team, the electronic frontier foundation (eff), and the foundation found a law firm ready to represent him pro bono, namely garvey schubert barer:.

  youtube's legal department emailed the user on or about july 10, 2018, five days before the subpoena's return date, stating that it would comply with the subpoena unless it received a file-stamped motion to quash "or other type of formal objection before july 20, 2018.

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  Thanks for the post. This is interesting. So their attempt to bully people with DMCA has caused them new legal expenses—brilliant!
  
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  Ministers are called for consultation regarding Jehovah’s Witness revelations

  by Not_Culty in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  https://avoidjw.org/en/news/ministers-are-called-for-consultation-regarding-jehovahs-witness-revelations/.

  the jehovah’s witnesses branch office in holbæk does not want to be interviewed, but states that in some cases they go to the authorities.. the recognized religious community of jehovah’s witnesses has an internal set of rules where religious leaders can judge on everything from smoking to killing.. this is according to a secret manual for the elders – religious leaders of jehovah’s witnesses – that tv 2 has in its possession.. precisely that fact is a testament that this is a parallel legal community, one of denmark’s leading experts in religious law believes.. and now the social democrats are calling the responsible ministers for consultation:.

  – for us, it is subordinate to what god you believe in.

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  It would be interesting to know how the Danish government views the Roman Catholic Church's internal legal system. It has such a large body of "canon law," that is, a set of rules/laws which comprise "a parallel legal system" within their religion that certain priests spend their entire careers studying canon law. I know one such priest who works in the diocese of a city and is that city's expert on the church's "parallel legal system." Parish priests contact him for advice on how the church should deal with certain internal matters. We can say the same of Orthodox Jews and rabbinic law. Both of these religions have been around a lot longer than the WTS.

  It is interesting that the Danish government is apparently focusing on JWs in this matter. This must be due to ex-JW activism. The RC church and Orthodox Judaism there have no such movements.
  
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  Article-Spain: A judge cites for the first time to declare Jehovah's Witness leaders for a case of sexual abuse

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  https://cronicaglobal.elespanol.com/vida/juez-cita-primera-vez-lideres-testigos-jehova-abuso-sexual_221160_102.html.

  a judge cites for the first time to declare jehovah's witness leaders for a case of sexual abuse.

  the justice calls to appear to four elders of the congregation in spain by possible concealment of a crime of rape to a woman when she was 18 years old by her boss.

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  Anything available in English on this?
  
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  2018 Branch Organization Manual!

  by Atlantis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just in case anybody needed this.. 2018 branch organization manual.

  https://we.tl/t-vya6lknwtn.

  atlantis!.

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  Thx, Atlantis, you've come through again!
  

  SBF, one observation:

  "the GB’s status ... is a position for life."

  Not exactly. It's for life only if a member does not fall into disfavor with his most elite peers: witness Ray Franz, Leo Greenlees, E. Chitty.

  As for appeal committees overturning a local committee's decision, I know of only two. It IS quite rare.
  
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  2019 Elders Manual and a Whole Lot More!

  by Atlantis in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  single zipped folderhttps://we.tl/t-uiqj87wimd.

  2019-02-02-musical preludeshttps://we.tl/t-zyfpnodizd.

  s-21-e congregation's publisher record (2018-12).pdfhttps://we.tl/t-i9qamx3s0q.

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  Atlantis,

  I haven't been on this forum in days—thanks so much for the stuff! I guess I managed to check in before the file service deleted it all. Now the link says it'll be gone in two days.

  We'll drink to all this good stuff!
  

  
  
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  The Photo-drama of Creation.

  by Lost in the fog in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  if anyone is interested in russell's the photo-drama of creation here's a link to the text and picture slides.

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  http://www.thestudiesinthescriptures.com/pages/english/eng%20pd/eng%20pd%2001-9/engpd%201.htm .

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  Thanks, Lost.
  
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  What new cuts might be coming

  by pepperheart in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  what new cuts might be coming for the watchtower ?.

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  Wouldn't a subscription fee be taxable? That's why they stopped charging for the printed lit.
  
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  Dilemma of Shunning Policy

  by Drearyweather in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  apologies if this topic has been discussed earlier.. i was thinking of whether demanding for a ban on shunning policy would be beneficial for the larger society.

  following are some things that we need to remember while advocating the issue:.

  1. shunning is not limited to jw's and for many americans, it is not that controversial as it seems.. 2. jw shunning is not a dark secret policy.

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  JC323: thanks. That goes to show how long I've been out!
  
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  Dilemma of Shunning Policy

  by Drearyweather in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  apologies if this topic has been discussed earlier.. i was thinking of whether demanding for a ban on shunning policy would be beneficial for the larger society.

  following are some things that we need to remember while advocating the issue:.

  1. shunning is not limited to jw's and for many americans, it is not that controversial as it seems.. 2. jw shunning is not a dark secret policy.

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  Drearyweather:

  "The OD book is given before you are announced as an unbaptized publisher. Once you speak to the elders that you want to become an Unbaptized publisher, they discuss this with you and if you are qualified, they hand over the book to you. You then need to go to FS for a month, submit your report and you are announced as a publisher."

  Wow, I didn't know that this procedure had gotten so formal. There was none of this announcing a new publisher when I was in—how things have changed.
  
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  Discontinue unproductive bible study - jw broadcasting

  by Gorbatchov in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  https://tv.jw.org/#en/mediaitems/latestvideos/pub-ism_2_video.

  interesting video explaining how to end a bible study.. watch the kind of uber behaviour of the witnesses: make a choice or we leave.... so hard, so not christian.

  no love for the person.. g..

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  Does anybody else find the black-profile-only characters in this vid strange? To me it looks ... creepy ... and cheap.