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Spurious & Rolling IMC Censorship

James Venables | 27.09.2003 18:03

Interesting though it was to be given this link to discussion on how articles get hidden, I can only conclude that articles get hidden on the basis of crass one-line reasoning which is neither tested nor questioned for bigotry or spurious intent of it's own.

 http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-uk-features/2003-May/003819.html


Below is the link to a set of articles, & their attached discussions, which are now being systemically hidden by people who are neither making an effort to justify their behaviour beyond crass one-liners (within which can be hidden all manner of spurious reasoning) or have neither the basic manners to have an online & adult discussion.

 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2003/09/278006.html

PS: No, I'm not RAM.

James Venables

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'Aim Here' Is Not Fit To Moderate IMC

27.09.2003 18:34

Please visit the link above to follow the thread of why I now feel that 'Aim Here' should have their IMC moderator rights immediately removed.

I myself write the highly successful Bristol-Stop-The-War Newsletter, as well as moderate Direct Action Against War, Bristol Activists & UWE Stop The War.

So, from one moderator to another, 'Aim Here' leave now.

James Venables

purpose of newswire

27.09.2003 19:36

This NEWSwire is to facilitate the publishing of news that is unlikely to get published in the corporate media. The best way to maintain such a resource and prevent it from degenerating into flame wars is to HIDE posts which do not meet the stated guidelines.
This newswire is NOT designed to provide a medium for unrestricted free speech. There are plenty of places on the internet where such a medium exists, try usenet for example.

Also, this is NOT a discussion forum, there are plenty of politcally oriented forums on the net, and disussion of Indymedia processes takes place on the public imc-process list, which is linked to on the contact page.

james

Actually

27.09.2003 21:40

For the sake of clarifiction, "Aim Here" points out in the linked discussion that he is not, in fact, an IMC moderator. Hence the argument about whether or not he is fit to be one is entirely moot.

Z