lets disable the comments feature on indymedia

There are issues that there is not a consensus on, like the blowing up of the skyscrapers in NYC on 11/9/2001 so the totally crap comments are left up.

For example:

 https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/09/380363.html?c=all

Another example is war -- some IMC activists are not anti-war and some favour pro-war comments being allowed on this site...

Some crap comments will be from genuine activists with crap politics and some is clearly disinfo.

Background reading:

 http://docs.indymedia.org/pub/Global/ImcEssayCollection/In_Times_of_Netwar_v0-9.pdf

Go back and read the goddamn Daily Mail. What friggin' planet are you on? This is supposed to be an alternative media source and the comments are an integral part of that process of "democratic" debate.

If you don't like some comments, then don't read them. In fact, turn your computer off, pick up a copy of your favourite newsrag and pleasure yourself with people who hold onto the same restricted world view that you do.

So much for anarchism and free speech.

Go and fry your face

before anyone fries their face, ok?

Should comments designed to undermine, discourage and demoralise activists be left up?

Should comments from serial pro-establishment trolls be left up?

Indymedia is but a part of the terrian that the information war is being fought across, if you haven't noticed this see this article about disinformation and the Wikipedia:

Wikipedia and the Intelligence Services
Is the Net's popular encyclopedia marred by disinformation?
Ludwig De Braeckeleer
 http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?article_class=3&no=374006&rel_no=1

Should the CIA or MI5 or any other state terror mob be allowed to have their comments remain unhidden in the name of free speech?

No.

Indymedia is a site for radical speech, for the telling of uncomfortable truths and for reporting the struggle against oppression, domination, exploitiation and slaughter of the many by the ruling elites -- it should resist being co-opted, it should not be a platform for the propaganda and psy-ops of the Empire.

By hiding comments, how is anyone besides some IMC'er to make the judgements about whether it is a disinformation campaign. Isn't the idea of free speech enshrined in the phrase "I may not like what you say, but I will defend your right to say it"?

The UK is already a police state with massive amounts of surveillance and disinformation ... if we can take this as given then we are already equipped to sift and sort through the Mi5 crap and discern what might be more realistic? Must we rely on an IMC'er to do this for us or can we be trusted to make up our own minds?