I can see why indymedia are doing it, with so many trolls and cops posting on here there was no balance, i have seen plenty of contsructivve critisism left up here for people to read and lots of false or obvious troll comments removed i think you are right and there needs to be a balance but at the moment i beleive it is being met as best as possible. im sure that some comments have been deleted that where not put up by shacwatch/cops ect but that was bound to happen. if you want indymedia to become the place where police try and split groups and cause arguments over nothing then thats fine but i would rather a few comments got deleted than that be the case.
also could you please expand on "facts that go against their flawed article. " as im not sure what post you are relating to exactly.

The most outrageous behavior from mods recently was the efforts they took to try to stop information about their use of ip monitoring tools within the indymedia cms. They not only hide dozens of comments and articles about it but went to the extreme lengths of deleting emails from the indymedia public archives.

There appears to be an unwritten rules that hiding comments don't require reporting on the public lists so vast numbers are hidden without any recourse or accountability.

Indy has gone massively down hill but I don't know what can be done about it.

instead.

I don't think Indymedia is a 'free-speech' site, whatever that means, nor do I think it should be. I don't think people have the right to incite people to racism, as just one example, and there are many. But either way, many people who post or comment on here do so with this idea of total free speech. That's not what IMC was set up for, and it's totally in the moderators remit to keep it for what it is supposed to be, which includes an open publishing forum, but not one for total 'say what you like and fuck the rest' speech (that's built on some individualist right-wing libertarian bullshit base).

thank you. rant over.

Indymedia isn't meant to be a like a myspace message wall and does need to be kept useful as a information and news resource. ranting and slagging people off just isn't on and the comments section is usually dire.

on the other hand, i agree that the admins behaved terribly other the ip login issue and they really shouldn't be allowed to just hide what they like without anyway to see who did it or why.

You have no idea what kinda shit people post as comments. There a people who are here with one purpose in mind and that is to fuck us all up with their posts. Without the admins hiding these trolls indymedia would be awash with misinformation and our movements would suffer for it.

This is not a free speech site and never intended to be