A Canadian web site has been shut down after legal action by Jehovah Witnesses. The site owner who did not offer commentary and opinion, posted JW quotes. It was deemed critical by the Jehovah Witnesses and the organization was successful in getting it taken off line.  A copy of the suit filed last year against quotes.watchtower.ca is here.  The Watch Tower publishing arm of the Jehovah Witnesses is the largest religious inhouse publisher in the world.

So a cult suceeds in taking down a web site in Canada, yet they are free to come to my door and hand me the same information. Typing quotes.watchtower.ca into the toolbar gets a forbidden. The cache says legal steps were taken against the website starting January 2005.  The wayback machine (internet archives - yielded 14 results) Here is what the former Jehovah Witness who owned the site has to say:

In compliance with the terms of a Settlement Agreement, my information and research web site, http://quotes.watchtower.ca, is now “dark”. The domain “Watchtower.ca” has been transferred to WTS (I assume they will have it pointing to Borg.org watchtower.org ASAP). My copies of the site have been destroyed, the files deleted, and my WT Library CD has been destroyed, in accordance with the Settlement Agreement which will afford a “discontinuance” of their suit against me. (Interesting aside: a discontinuance means the suit is merely in “suspended animation”. It will always be there, waiting to thaw out, to haunt me for the rest of my life. It will become part of my estate after I’m gone. That’s just the way it works.)

…It has been said that settlement negotiations are two people working toward a mutually disagreeable conclusion. Unfortunately, due to the restrictions of Paragraph 12 of the settlement, I am unable to comment on the negotiations of the settlement. However, by that same paragraph, I am able to comment on the terms of the settlement; hence I provide the details by providing the complete settlement agreement. I have nothing to hide.

Now I can put this behind me, but I am free to talk about it publicly. Of course, that will be challenging, since I agreed, as part of the settlement, to destroy all my copies of the site and also destroy my WT LIBRARY CD. But at least I will be able to tell my story. In fact, I may even write a book, or perhaps (when I dare to dream) a screenplay. I am thinking of a farcical yet fact-based comedy, with Jim Carey playing the lead. Can you imagine the high-jinx? ALLRIGHTYTHEN!

More background information on this case.
Why are Jehovah Witnesses considered a cult of Christianity?
According to Religious Tolerance Ontario there are approximately 111 thousand Jehovah Witness adherents in Canada. (1999)

via: Religion News Blog