Do any Bethel/WT ip addresses visit here often?

by EndofMysteries 16 Replies latest jw friends

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  suavojr

  You have to admit that bethel heavies do monitor this site but just like all the other sites against the borg. But you are still important Simon
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  Richard_I

  When I was at Bethel, I tried accessing this site and got the big "THIS WEBSITE HAS BEEN BLOCKED" warning with the reason being "apostate site" (every site has a generic warning, but torrent sites were fine!). You cannot get around the filter unless you found a really random, new porn site/porn gallery site, and the Computer Department checks your router's website history every once in awhile to see if you have been visiting pornographic sites or getting around the filter. The only way you'll get around this is if you are on a different network at Bethel, which is impossible in my mind, they simply do not have a "secret" network that allows unrestricted access.

  Remember that regular members can visit this site, tell the CO what they read, who then reports to the local Bethel about it, so Bethel doesn't even need to monitor it themself, they hear everything from members, who then reports to the CO, which they then hear about.

  Also I was never question about trying to get to this site, and if I was all I had to say was I clicked the wrong link in Google when searching "jehovahs witnesses".

  Also the WT's IP range is 208.74.140.0 to 208.74.143.255
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  Balaamsass2

  Richard J. If you have a smart-phone, Pad etc can you get 4g at Bethel?

  I was a stone age new boy.
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  Richard_I

  Balaamsass2, nobody I knew had a smartphone, the guys with cellphones just had the old flip phones, but the overseers were given pagers. I assume Wallkill and Patterson would get 3G now, and Brooklyn 4G. Warwick will probably be 3G too. You had to pay for internet access as well, I think it was about $5/month? It's been almost 5 years since I left so my memory is hazy on the small stuff.
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  cultBgone

  Y'all....Simon did not ask for validation that he was important...

  Simon made the point that the value of this website is not determined by whether or not folks within the bOrg/Bethel happen to visit. Confirming that would mean absolutely nothing so why waste the time.

  Simon, thank you for being so level-headed and for providing this forum. And to your wife also!
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  RobertT18

  what about proxies? Do they block that as well? I'm sure there is a work around, you just have to know how to do it.
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  EndofMysteries

  Thanks for that info Richard, that is very interesting. If it's still the same today, then hypothetically, any traffic from WT networks would be those higher ups who would have firewall bypass access. Seems just regular bethelites could only access then from their own smartphones as long as the 3g or 4g networks weren't controlled by WT.

  That being said, if WT is blocking ex jw websites, then I wouldn't be surprised if one day they release a WT web browser or VPN to 'protect' the R@F from 'dangerous' websites when they use the internet.