[Imc-aotearoa-ed] Fwd: Re: Indymedia - strange kind of censorship

[Brian van Dam]

HI Clare,
                    Oh dear! It seems dk (Don?) has misconstrued a few 
things. In particular, that while AIM is here to allow people to 
publicly expose wrongdoing through their postings, we don't put people 
in prison! (In fact, some of us are not all that keen on the concept of 
prisons!!!)

I think it is a bit like Victor -  we have made an effort at rational 
communication, and dk seems to want AIM to actively get involved in his 
personal crusade against Dow. While this might come under our community 
outreach focus, we have to actually have someone in New Plymouth to do 
that -  even if we wanted to!!!

Engagement doesn't seem to be working, so I think one more polite e-mail 
to dk by someone other than Clare (to try and limit the focus from one 
person) explaining that as we do  not have the resources to do an 
on-the-spot investigation, the only way that AIM can help `expose Dow's 
evils' in New Pplymouth is through our newswire, and possibly through a 
feature if something new happens or someone writes a good backgrounder 
on the subject.

Then we just continue editing as per normal. I have been persuaded by 
Finn's arguments to leave peoples names posted (at least until we have 
time to develop/refine our ed policy) unless it is proven to be 
factually incorrect.

The biggest problem seems to be incoherent postings on the Dow/New 
Plymouth pollution issue.


 I can write something to dk tommorrow hopefully if people like the 
idea, and no-one else has time.

Cheers,
                Brian.