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Indymedia Practises Censorship

[Bristol] Maccabean | 06.06.2010 13:22

One view or no view?
A few days ago we published a list of facts in regards to Israels position on the flottilla incident titled 'Flotilla Facts' Unfortunately Bristol Indymedia removed it after only two days. This is censorship of the worst kind and only allows one point of view to be aired. SHAME ON YOU!
It is important to understand that in the modern world information flows at a furious pace. This has its benefits as well as its drawbacks. The biggest drawback is that at times opinions can be formed before the complete picture can come out. In the case of Israel it tends to happen in a disproportionate way. The independent media is in a position to counter this unprofessional approach and thus allow all the information to get out to the public thus helping them to form well informed opinions. This will not work though if these supposed Indy Media outlets perform censorship and only allow one direction of opinion to be expressed. If Bristol Indymedia is for real then I demand that you reinstate my previous article and not become part of the problem.

[Bristol] Maccabean
- Original article on IMC Bristol: http://bristol.indymedia.org/article/692573

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Israeli censorship and Hasbara PRopagandist complaints

06.06.2010 15:04

"It is important to understand that in the modern world information flows at a furious pace. This has its benefits as well as its drawbacks. The biggest drawback is that at times opinions can be formed before the complete picture can come out"

Actually, we never heard from the activists until yesterday. Up until now Israel, using snippets of their combat footage and snippets of stolen footage from the activists and journalists they kidnapped, had free reign on 'forming opinions' in the world before the activist side of the story could be told. Pro-Israeli commentators like you have been mobilised onto every internet forum and newspaper letters page, and the Israeli state has been releasing faked audio tapes of the radio exchanges between the flotilla and your navy.

You are complaining of being the victim of something when in fact you are the guilty party. That is the nature of bullys, to play the victim and to blame the actual victim for being the bully. Yet it easily seen through by anyone paying attention. You do it every time. You are smearing the passengers who used non-lethal force against an illegal and murderous boarding as terrorists, as if they'd stormed into the commandos base and attacked them while they slept.

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Rubbish, just fuck off and die!

06.06.2010 16:40

Indymedia is a lefty / anarchist grassroots website. and the right wing always bitch about "freedom of speech", well you can just fuck right off, yes Indymedia is a free speech forum, and as such, it censors facistic opinoins, the same way you cannot go on about not being allowed to say that pedophilia should be legal, you cannot go on saying that fascists should be allowed freedom of expression, no nazis and no zionists, this goes hand in hand with freedom of speech, if we'd let you speak you'd silence the voices of reason, so just go to hell, oh yeah and i've seen your article, it was RUBBISH, it was just propaganda, not a single argument you've put stands to anything. lies and half truths at best.

if you want to recite these things then do it on ZNN or EDL forums, no one wants you here, and this is not antisemitism before you start bitching about it, it's common sense, the common sense that you, the EDL, B&H and others like you lack, so go and join hand in hand with the nazis you love so much, wave Israeli flags along side England flags and suck Nick Griffins cock behind the bushes of the Israeli Embassy, just don't come here and complain

Yours...

International Hapoelian