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Now For The Main Story

James Jones | 05.03.2007 22:07

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A site for independent writers to publish.Not of the mainstream?Is it a dark site?Dark in the sence of hidden?What exactly is a definition of a hidden article?Lets go to Indymedia and copy and paste the guidelines to this article.
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Last updated 2007-02-19

IMC UK, 04.11.2006 17:25
In its entirety there you have it.Straight from the horseless mouth,sorry horse's
If for instance you were to quote an actual law of the uk.Becase the IMCUK does not agree with you they can,and will hide.If that law has to do with a current issue relating to their own survival.
I am biased
I have came here with many truths,later published by the mainstream,but hey who am i?and so what?That is what indymedia set out to be.A free and uninhibited without compromise news media website,free from interference from the state or it's own controllers.
But we now have a very dark Indymedia.org.uk.One that mainly edits,removes without publish and tells us basically to FUCKOFF.And not only,if your joe in the street witnessing something live,well you contravene the IMCUK.

James Jones

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