Mormon Church Goes After WikiLeaks
Found on Slashdot on Tuesday, 13 May 2008
The Mormon Church has instructed its lawyers to gag the Internet over WikiLeaks' release of the 1968 and 1999 versions of its confidential handbook for Church leaders. Apart from attacking WikiLeaks, legal demands were sent to Jimmy Wales of the WikiMedia foundation for a WikiNews article merely linking to the material, and scribd.com has also been censored. WikiLeaks has (of course) refused to remove the documents.
Good luck removing something from the Internet. The interesting question is why they want it removed anyway. If they are an open church without hiding anything from their followers, they shouldn't mind. But as someone who is opposed to religion, I'm not going to read 198 pdf pages (or 160 if you go by the scanned page count).