IMC-UK overrun with bulls**t
Thomas J | 08.08.2002 19:56
Am I the only person who reads the IMC-UK newswire who is a teeny weeny bit annoyed about all the crap that gets posted on here? I seriously doubt it.
For the past month, I have not been able to read the newswire without coming across articles about the latest whacko conspiricy about the Freemasons, or the New World Order, or the Illuminanti, or whatever is flavour of the month for these loons. At the moment that flavour is that the goverment is using airliners to saturate the skies with "chemtrails" - utter nonsense. So I ask, WTF is this doing on the newswire?
It's not just the conspiricy nuts that are annoying me. There are some articles which are just mere discussions, with very little news or ideas in them, unless you can count the (never ending) flame wars between anarchists and SWP supporters.
If any of you have read my previous postings on IMC-UK, you would know that I was 100% for an uncensored newswire. Now having seen drivel upon drivel upon drivel, hiding some of this would not be a bad idea, as the newswire is becoming less informative because of this.
Some of you (like I did) will cry out that this would be only the thin end of the wedge, and it would undermine the principles of IndyMedia, but something has to be done otherwise the IMC newswire will become next to useless. Conspircy theorists have their own websites, so they have no excuse to pollute IndyMedia with their drivel. Besides, if people really want to look at this, the IMC should provide a link from the front page to all the hidden articles.
Final thing, my appologies go out to Dan for publishing yet another "un-news" article, and appologies also to Mike (the Essex Uni one), dh, and BlackPope, who suppored my anti-censorship views.
It's not just the conspiricy nuts that are annoying me. There are some articles which are just mere discussions, with very little news or ideas in them, unless you can count the (never ending) flame wars between anarchists and SWP supporters.
If any of you have read my previous postings on IMC-UK, you would know that I was 100% for an uncensored newswire. Now having seen drivel upon drivel upon drivel, hiding some of this would not be a bad idea, as the newswire is becoming less informative because of this.
Some of you (like I did) will cry out that this would be only the thin end of the wedge, and it would undermine the principles of IndyMedia, but something has to be done otherwise the IMC newswire will become next to useless. Conspircy theorists have their own websites, so they have no excuse to pollute IndyMedia with their drivel. Besides, if people really want to look at this, the IMC should provide a link from the front page to all the hidden articles.
Final thing, my appologies go out to Dan for publishing yet another "un-news" article, and appologies also to Mike (the Essex Uni one), dh, and BlackPope, who suppored my anti-censorship views.
Thomas J
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