...I originally posted this on the "I See Eyes Everywhere" thread....
...but it really fits better here... ...prob oughta put it on the "Crazy Stuff - Post it Here" thread, as well... I thought....
...the headline is very funny... but the rest is behind a paywall...
....the lead-in sounds like "The Onion".... (but it's not.... it's The Times... so... straighten your tie, and wipe that grin off your face).... and finish your crumpet.... and sit up straight....
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/...-after-freemasons-overshare-secrets-9hv3ctk3j
Grand Lodge logs off social media after freemasons overshare secrets
Marc Horne
September 16 2019, 12:01am, The Times
The Grand Lodge of Scotland’s website may sell accessories but the group strives to retain a level of secrecy, something that its members failed to uphold on its social media page.
The Grand Lodge of Scotland has abandoned social media over fears that jealously guarded secrets are being leaked online.
The country’s freemasons began an unprecedented publicity drive four years ago to reverse a fall in membership. The lodge hoped that Twitter and Facebook would improve the standing of the all-male fraternal organisation, whose former members included George VI, Robert Burns and Arthur Conan Doyle.
It has since suspended its social media accounts after confidential internal information and spats between members appeared on the internet. The lodge also had problems with images of its members being posted publicly without their permission.
Robert Cooper, the curator of the lodge’s library and museum, who also edits its Twitter and Facebook pages, confirmed that the pages had been put…
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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/...-after-freemasons-overshare-secrets-9hv3ctk3j
...but it really fits better here... ...prob oughta put it on the "Crazy Stuff - Post it Here" thread, as well... I thought....
...the headline is very funny... but the rest is behind a paywall...
....the lead-in sounds like "The Onion".... (but it's not.... it's The Times... so... straighten your tie, and wipe that grin off your face).... and finish your crumpet.... and sit up straight....
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/...-after-freemasons-overshare-secrets-9hv3ctk3j
Grand Lodge logs off social media after freemasons overshare secrets
Marc Horne
September 16 2019, 12:01am, The Times
The Grand Lodge of Scotland’s website may sell accessories but the group strives to retain a level of secrecy, something that its members failed to uphold on its social media page.
The Grand Lodge of Scotland has abandoned social media over fears that jealously guarded secrets are being leaked online.
The country’s freemasons began an unprecedented publicity drive four years ago to reverse a fall in membership. The lodge hoped that Twitter and Facebook would improve the standing of the all-male fraternal organisation, whose former members included George VI, Robert Burns and Arthur Conan Doyle.
It has since suspended its social media accounts after confidential internal information and spats between members appeared on the internet. The lodge also had problems with images of its members being posted publicly without their permission.
Robert Cooper, the curator of the lodge’s library and museum, who also edits its Twitter and Facebook pages, confirmed that the pages had been put…
Continue reading
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/...-after-freemasons-overshare-secrets-9hv3ctk3j
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