The LDS, following in the questionable steps of the Church of Scientology, has now issued multiple copyright infringement notices in an effort to get the information taken down. As we know, this strategy is unlikely to do anything but win the Mormons a share of the online community's unsympathetic attention, a quantity that until now Scientology has been enjoying alone.
Tech Daily points out, alas, the LDS information is vastly more bland than Scientology's near-incomprehensible secrets, including this bit of gibberish:
This same pattern, but given in an amusement park with a single tunnel, a roller coaster and a Ferris wheel, was used between about 319 trillion years ago to about 256 trillion trillion years ago, a long span.
Who's got a decoder ring?
The LDS handbook covers disfellowshipment, excommunication and a lot of "humdrum procedural information," that few members would read if the church required it. Says Tech Daily:
Now that the Internet is getting better at sniffing out documents that people don't want public, we're getting a nice picture of how much of this secret information was secret for its own sake. In other words, you have to wonder if there's any reason for LDS to want to keep its boring bylaws in a vault other than, simply, because it has always done so.
