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Censorship going WAY over the top!!

bloke | 07.02.2005 12:54

Why was my article about the G7 finance ministers meeting censored?

OK so it wasn't the best written article, but seeing as no-one else had bothered to do one I thought I would describe the protest.

(In summary, some anarchists turned up, some people from World Development Movement, and the samba band Rhythms of resistance).

I have looked at the editorial guidelines and I honestly can't see how the article has breached any of these guidelines.

What does "OPEN PUBLISHING" mean when you can just censor anything you don't like the look of?

This was a description of a protest. It was news. It should not have been hidden.

bloke

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Suggestion

07.02.2005 19:26

How about when you hide articles you explain WHY they're hidden (ie more specifically than just saying they contravene the guidelines).

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Yes comments about why things have been hidden are good

07.02.2005 23:08

The thing is though that at the moment these comments / reasons are posted to a email list and not to this web site:

 http://lists.indymedia.org/imc-uk-features

Regarding the hidden report -- this does sound like a mistake, can you identify the post by looking at the view all posts page (this lists everything in the newswire including the hidden stuff):

 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/viewallposts.html

IMC'er

censorship is censorship

08.02.2005 09:27

... however you want to dress it up as 'editorial guidelines' or 'hidden'.

Apparently, it doesn't matter that those with sight problems can't read these articles as well as those with good eyes - this is not discrimination nor a heirachical response to information.

Head in the sand.

Nobody censors speech they agree with.

... seen the way this movie ends ...

Meet the new media, same as the old media.

jackslucid
mail e-mail: jackslucid@hotmail.com

Sometimes it takes a while

08.02.2005 11:47

Bloke, it looks like your G7 article is now on the newswire - perhaps it wasn't hidden, it just took a long time to appear. As you're probably aware, the UK Indymedia server is pretty overloaded. At the best of times, it can take an hour for a post to appear, and ocassionaly maintainance can mean that new articles don't appear for a number of hours. Hopefully there'll be a newer, faster server soon (you can make a donation to help with that, if you like). In the meantime, if a post hasn't appeared, check on the view all posts page, which will tell you whether it has been hidden or not. Any questions about hidden articles should be directed to  imc-uk-features@lists.indymedia.org .

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