I imagine the key thing the WTS is concerned about is that at Wikipedia, JWs are writing about what they believe. This has always been something strongly prohibited, long before the internet was around.
When people truly teach a topic (not just parrot information from a Bible study aid), it requires a much deeper understanding, and at this depth of thought one can can easily run into unanswerable questions and logical impossibilities of the doctrine. From the WTS's point of view, it is safer for JWs to be protected from this by only reading what they are given, and only repeating what they are told.
It's sad that the WTS continues to insist upon curtailing legitimate freedoms of its members,
Nice post Scarlet. Point on too.
It's quite clear also as to why their leaders do not provide their members with an official discussion and chat area on their "ONLY official JW website". Hence, as you say: "WTS's point of view, it is safer for JWs to be protected from this by only reading what they are given, and only repeating what they are told."
This reminds me of all the exhaustive hours I spent, in the now defunct yahoo jw chatroom, pasting up the weekly BLONDIE articles and also articles from the official WTBTS/JW website. Bringing these articles into an open, public arena, for all to see and DISCUSS really burned up the active jws there. They consistently wanted to know why an apostate would even do this. LOL!!! Surely they jest, I would reply.
See, the average chatter that would happen upon the room would WANT TO DISCUSS what was being pasted up...BEFORE THE JW LANDED A BIBLE STUDY.
I would tell the room that as a "householder", jws don't tell you the actual POLICIES of being involved as a "dedicated baptized member". BUT HERE YOU CAN! I would put up links, documents, articles, essays, letters, etc. until the day came that the room was not FOR jws any longer. It was ABOUT them!
Ode to the yahoo jw chatroom. May it rest in pieces.
Incidently Scarlet, welcome a-board.
sKally