UK Indymedia Server Seizure Newswire Archive
Athens Indymedia "under attack", down
11-04-2013 20:45
TVXS news site quotes that Athens.Indymedia is likely 'under occupation'Quotes a call for open meeting tomorrow (
http://tvxs.gr/sites/default/files/article/2013/15/125428g-arkheio_lepses.png)
Indymedia UK under major and sustained attack!
17-05-2011 21:54
It is now apparent that IMC UK (www.indymedia.org.uk) is currently being attacked by elements that are attempting to degrade the authority of IMC UK on the World Wide Web.Libya News Excerp DN! ::: Kwantum :::
28-02-2011 14:11
Censorship amid controversy over police on indymedia
25-01-2011 01:41
Last week the respected alternative news project SchNEWS published a story revealing long term malicious use of indymedia by elements within the states police apparatus. The piece was base on the so-called 303 Gateway article written collaboratively by a number of indymedia admins and proposed in secret as a feature for the UK site over six months ago. The proposal was blocked by London and Northern IMC. They claim they failed to get agreement on amendments aimed at distancing themselves from admissions within the article that indymedia admins had in fact had access to IP logs despite having repeatedly said the opposite in the past. Both London and Northern said that they would have no objection to the article being published as a feature on Indymedia UK if it was made clear within the article that the IP logging was a feature found within the MIR content management system used by IMC UK and its regional sites Birmingham, Cambridge, Liverpool, Oxford, Sheffield and South Coast, not those using alternative CMS such as Bristol, London, Northern, Nottingham and Scotland. However it seem tonight that their claim has be proven a lie...The draft article stated, "what has never been openly stated before is that the CMS system we use has a number of anti-abuse measures which include the ability to monitor for particular IP addresses and log their behaviour." The draft goes on to say, "site admins believed that they would never be able to gain the trust of posters, if the range of anti-abuse measures were made public. As is often the case, once a body has failed to be completely open about something, it becomes 'the elephant in the room' and so a situation was created where the new and current admins were actively blocked from bringing these measures into the open. The stalemate continued until now, with site admins proposing a new approach of coming clean about the measures that are in place, and others in the collective blocking this."
Prophetically, that stalemate over coming clean about the IP logging meant that no consensus was possible on publishing the article. There was no way that the information about the governments disinfo campaign could be published without revealing that indymedia had been lying about IP logs. Apparently some suggested it could be published via a different alt media outlet while leaving out the info about indymedia but the story would have been weak without the evidence gathered by indymedia admins.
The impasse remained but then the draft article was leaked by a disgruntled admin using the name 'indyleaks'. The posts were repeatedly hidden from the indymedia sites it was posted to and a filter set up on IMC UK to automatically hide it whenever posted.
There remains no consensus about publishing the article which includes a frank admission that indymedia has misled its user since 2003. However the lack of consensus is now a moot point since SchNEWS has ran the story and Birmingham IMC has published the 303 gateway article as a feature on it's own site.
https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/01/472622.html Both the story about the government running a disinfo campaign via indymedia, and the story that indymedia UK has been hiding the truth about IP logging for all these years, that is big news for activists at a time when trust is already in short supply.
As the article says "continuing to gloss over the reality in a misleading way was detrimental to Indymedia UK, and that there was no small likelihood that at some stage we could be outed." Now that the truth is out, lets hope indymedia can recover from the damage to its credibility and move on to become more open and honest with its users.
Fisher
fight the poisonous incinerators in uk
22-10-2010 23:03
threat of the incinerator s being built in uk
23-06-2010 21:26
incinerators increase child deaths cancers ect derby have the threat of 3 being built help advive welcome dS036.NET attacked by German Police
26-04-2010 19:41
Bristol Indymedia offline! What's happening?
09-03-2010 17:41
The wave of repression has broken over Bristol!FASCIST police dictatorship in Greece NOW!
09-12-2009 06:06
This message of urgency has also been sent to indymedia athens, but it seems that the site may have been hijacked by the greek police and it is obviously censored. The message is in Greek and I urge greek persons or persons who know greek to translate it into English first, so it can be translated into other languages too. FOR A WORLDWIDE MOVEMENT OF SOLIDARITY THAT WILL SMASH THE NEW GREEK JUNTA.
