www.indymedia.org is no longer " open publishing. "
Janice | 15.04.2002 22:57
After an unsuccessful morning on indymedia trying to get a reply - a reasonable explanation - for why indymedia no longer abides by "dont hate the media, become the media" and "we are an open publishing site, I have sadly concluded that indymedia has become just one more authoritarian censor like the rest of the media.
Having been a poster to indymedia since its inception I am heartbroken at the direction taken by www.indymedia.org. No longer is it an open publishing site.
"News" is now editorialised by volunteers from other indymedia sites on the front page.
Indymedia subscribers have been sidelined to a closet "newsgroup" to preach to the converted.
I consider the actions of indymedia volunteers who supported this move regrettable and a real blow to the basic 'open publishing' theme which gave indymedia its stimulating and exciting uniqueness in a world where mainstream media has been transformed into dumbed-down lies and mediocrity.
I want to keep fighting for our media but I can no longer publish on the site. I just get a blank screen refusing my comments and posts.
The indymedia network belongs to the people who made it. It does not belong in the hands of a few. Real political activists do not care if right wing people post crap or Arabs and Jews fought. I personally thought some of the exchanges were quite funny actually and better to battle it out on indymedia than bomb each other. Agree?
Help me.
Janice
Janice
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