Double Standards
Ben | 01.06.2012 11:06
The Indymedia collective is probably under more criticism now than at any time since either the Atzmon cock-up or Mayday v Be The Media split.
Part of the issue relates to the choices made by individual mods regardless of the Editorial Guidelines. There has been over the last few days a pretty ugly spat between a poster called 'irritant' and IMC mod 'freethepeeps'.
As somebody with experience of the way antisemitism drives the decision making of most of what 'freethepeeps' does I was not surprised to see the way it was dealt with however there is a bigger series of issues here.
Why was the following not hidden as each one breaks the Editorial Guidelines ?
Part of the issue relates to the choices made by individual mods regardless of the Editorial Guidelines. There has been over the last few days a pretty ugly spat between a poster called 'irritant' and IMC mod 'freethepeeps'.
As somebody with experience of the way antisemitism drives the decision making of most of what 'freethepeeps' does I was not surprised to see the way it was dealt with however there is a bigger series of issues here.
Why was the following not hidden as each one breaks the Editorial Guidelines ?
https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2012/05/496550.html?c=all https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2012/06/496587.html https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2012/06/496584.html https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2012/05/496557.html https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2012/05/496520.html https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2012/05/496511.html https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2012/05/496494.html These are just a few examples, there are many, many more.
Mods are hiding or not hiding posts based on their agreement with the points or story depicted rather than the Editorial Guidelines. For example just about any posts critical of Israel will be allowed regardless of accuracy or relevance while those posts in the past week that have shown numerous human rights abuses in Syria were almost immediately hidden and then removed even from the Hide all posts pages.
If this site is to be saved new mods are needed.
Ben
