8 hours ago
Me: A good lawyer could have baited the judge into asking Polidoro if its true that people are disfellowshipped for no longer believing that the WT is God's Sole Channel of Communication on earth. It would have been awesome to get Polidoro's answer to that question on record.
Simon: Good for who? It would do absolutely nothing for the case as it's little to do with religious freedom and everything to do with copyright.
It has little to do with neither. I don't think anyone gives a flip about some chart that DS posted. The copyright case is an excuse to out an insider critic embedded deep within Watchtower because he no longer believes their prophetic claims.
The trap the WT set could easily be turned around so that they fall into it themselves. There is an opportunity here. The anonymous identity issue that Darkspilver is raising isn't his real issue just as the copyright issue isn't the real issue for the Wt.
The real issue is that if a person no longer believes that the Watchtower is God's sole channel of communication on earth, they must be required to say goodbye to all of their family and friends if they wish to exercise this freedom of thought. The public and the legal system is mostly unaware of this and this is the whipping stick the WT seeks to protect with this action.
Once that is exposed publicly, or if we get the WT to outright lie about their God-like claims, EITHER WAY WE WIN. Then everyone is that much closer to the day when the cost analysis to the WT may encourage them to abandon this hideous thought-crime punishment, hence making "copyright infringement" (wink, wink) unnecessary.
The fact is, that an American digital media company believes that they alone are God's Sole Channel of Communication on earth and any who disagrees with them (especially those brought up in it) are punished with the severest form of emotional and psychological abuse - banishment from family and friends.
THAT IS THE ISSUE HERE. Both the need for anonymity and "copyright infringement" problems disappear once freedom is restored.