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Verfasser: James

Datum: Mittwoch, den 28. März 2001, um 19:12 Uhr

Betrifft: Gleichschaltung - es ist so weit

Es ist soweit ... Gleichschaltung hieÃŸ vor nicht allzu langer Zeit, richtig?

Und wieder erfÃ¼llt sich eine Prophezeiung ... und das ohne den EinfluÃŸ des Heiligen Grals und ohne Hut und Seherstein:

Die Kirche verbietet "unoffizielle" Webseiten. Nicht das dies Ã¼berraschen wÃ¼rde ...

Salt Lake Tribune, frisch von "Druckerpresse":

Die "prÃ¤sidierende Bischofschaft" schickte, im Auftrag der "ersten PrÃ¤sidentschaft" die Marschbefehle an die Mitglieder ... die "privaten Websites" z.B. der Ã¶rtlichen Gemeinden und PfÃ¤hle aus dem Netz zu nehmen. Amen. Nur das "genehmigte und korrelierte (ich liebe diesen Begriff) Material" darf benutzt werden. Schnarcccccccccch. If you’ve seen one, you’ve seen ’em all!

Man muÃŸ, na ja, gewohnt sind sie es ja eh, Sonntag ein, Sonntag aus, sich "der Welt akkurat und wÃ¼rdig" zeigen, mit "einer einheitlichen Kirchenstimme" prÃ¤sentieren. Es lebe der Einheitsbrei, persÃ¶nliche Freiheit und IndividualitÃ¤t.

Nach Google gibt es ... Ã¤hhhhhh ... sorry, gab es wohl ca. 3000 solcher Websites ... und es werden rapide stÃ¼ndlich weniger ... sie existieren nicht mehr, oder die Links sind tot etc. Sie sind eben ein gehorsames Volk.

No further comment ... it speaks for itself.

Der O-Bericht:

"LDS Leaders Move To Close Unofficial Mormon Web Sites

Wednesday, March 28, 2001

BY BOB MIMS

THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, citing concerns over proliferation of thousands of unofficial Mormon-related Web sites, has requested that local church leaders discontinue their Internet home pages.
The Presiding Bishopric of the LDS Church, on behalf of the faith’s ruling First Presidency, sent a letter to local leaders -- from mission presidents to bishops -- asking them to take down their existing sites.
Local leaders also were told not to put up any new sites until a policy is developed governing use of the Internet that would apply to all of the LDS Church’s nearly 28,000 congregations worldwide.
The letter says that only "official Church Internet sites," such as www.lds.org and its related links, contain "approved, correlated material that the church has deemed appropriate for the Internet.
"As the Church grows, it is very important that information presented to the world be accurate and dignified and that it represent a single, unified Church voice," the church leaders wrote. "In addition, it is imperative that the rights of third parties be protected and respected through strict compliance with applicable laws."
Church spokesman Dale Bills declined Tuesday to provide any information beyond what was in the three-paragraph letter dated March 15. He also declined to discuss what had prompted the decision to ban local church Web sites.
However, the letter -- especially its reference to protecting third parties -- triggered speculation that it may have been in response to a rumor making Internet rounds of late that an unspecified LDS ward Web site, somewhere, had put names of excommunicated members online.
Kent Larsen, founder and editor of the popular Internet Web site Mormon News, came across the rumor and said his own extensive inquiries had so far failed to confirm it.
Still, the mere possibility that it could have happened at any one of the thousands of unofficial and unsupervised ward and stake Web sites in cyberspace could have been enough to give the church’s lawyers headaches, Larsen said.
The rumor "is a good example of what could happen if you don’t have a measure of control over these sites," Larsen said. "If someone did [list excommunicants online], it obviously opens up the church to libel charges."
The ban does not effect Larsen’s site, a private operation he put up two years ago with his wife Michelle. Mormon News today records more than 100,000 visitors per month.
"Generally, [the ban] is the right thing to do. But it is unfortunate the church didn’t do this three years ago when these sites first began appearing," he said.
The ban is expected to have a small impact on the earnings of LDSCN Web Hosting Center (www.ldscn.com), a 7-year-old site in San Jose, Calif., dedicated to Mormon-related data warehousing, Web hosting and computer consulting services.
"The church’s letter will cause us to lose approximately 30 customers -- wards and stakes -- at a total impact of about $100 a month, nothing worth mentioning. It was not directed at, nor will it affect our primary business," said Glen Barney, LDSCN operations director.
On its page detailing Web hosting services Monday, LDSCN had inserted a boldface announcement that it was "not currently accepting applications for new ward, stake or unit Web sites, pending a determination from the LDS Church regarding its policies on such sites."
Meantime, ward and stake Web sites seemed to be slowly complying with the church directive. Of the dozens of local Mormon congregational sites checked Monday, about half still were active while the remainder were dead links.
Some contained brief notices of suspension. At the North Little Rock (Ariz.) Stake home page, visitors were informed, "We have received a letter from the First Presidency requesting that all ward-stake Web sites be removed from the Web.
"The letter seemed to indicate that they will be coming out later with guidelines and policies," it continued. "Maybe we can get it back up then."
Exactly how many Mormon wards and stakes have gone online is not a statistic church officials could provide. However, it is clear the figure is in the thousands. Queries of the Google search engine for "Mormon and LDS stakes and wards" topped 3,000 hits, with many of those sites providing listings of church-related Web sites."