I was very disappointed and indeed concerned to see the posting about the Respect meeting in Coventry pulled after a very short time.This smacks of the most authoritarian censorship and I am dismayed that those in Indymedia who control such matters have removed the report.
Here in Neath the local branch of Respect is in the middle of a fight to retain school bus subsidies and the issue is big and important locally with the local press carrying weekly articles about the campaign to save the subsidies and Respect's role in it.The Neath Guardian has just published a letter from a New Labour cllr attacking Respect and the political battle is hotting up.Does this mean that anything by a Respect member is to be barred from Indymedia and how authoritarian is that if I may ask?
Ifor
Here in Neath the local branch of Respect is in the middle of a fight to retain school bus subsidies and the issue is big and important locally with the local press carrying weekly articles about the campaign to save the subsidies and Respect's role in it.The Neath Guardian has just published a letter from a New Labour cllr attacking Respect and the political battle is hotting up.Does this mean that anything by a Respect member is to be barred from Indymedia and how authoritarian is that if I may ask?
Ifor
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Editorial Guidelines
24.07.2005 13:58
The editorial guidelines (see top of front page) for IMCUK are clear and along with abusive posts, discriminatory posts etc, they also prohibit posts which are essentialy anouncements by heirarchic political parties, which Respect is. Talk about the issue by all means, but if the post seems to concentrate more on advertising Respect than it does the actual issue at hand, then IMC editors are justified in removing it. The guideline I refer to is below:
Hierarchy : The newswire is designed to generate a news resource, not a notice-board for political parties or any other hierarchically structured organizations.
Cheers.
R@