[IMC-Editorial] cleaning up our act (was: Warning! Aryan nations using your bandwidth!!!)

[nessie at sfbg.com]

>ChuckO is right on about everything he said except this, which is 
>only part true:

>We can't control what these people say about Indymedia

We can't control what these people say about Indymedia *on their own 
sites*. However, we can and should control what people people say 
about Indymedia on Indymedia sites.

For example, I always hide stuff like these, that claims we are anti-Semitic:

  http://makeashorterlink.com/?C2BF53468

I also created a thread called "The 'SF-IMC sucks' thread".

See:

http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2002/12/1548433.php

This thread is for criticism of our editorial policy. Any criticism 
of our editorial policy that appears in any other thread is hidden 
immediately. This has proven to be an *extremely* useful maneuver. 
Left unchecked, criticism of our editorial policy, will clutter up 
threads all over the forum, and disrupt cogent, focused discussion.

Same goes for criticism of my personality. People who want to talk 
about me, and not have it hidden, need to put it in "The 'nessie 
sucks' thread":

http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2002/11/1546540.php

Even there, I hide claims we are anti-Semitic.  Anybody who 
criticizes Zionism, and expects to be taken seriously, needs to bend 
over backwards to avoid any possibility of being portrayed as 
anti-Semitic. Most people hold anti-Semitism in such disdain that if 
they hear you are anti-Semitic, they wont read what anything you have 
to say, not even enough to ascertain if it's true or not.

Zionist propagandists routinely use black propaganda:

http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2002/12/1555696.php

to portray us as Nazis. To a somewhat lesser extent, Nazis attempt to 
portray us as Zionist stooges. No, these claims do not cancel each 
other out. They only confuse and alienate newbies. To achieve it 
mission, Indymedia must, among other things, studiously avoid 
confusing and alienating newbies.

Fortunately, as Chuck0 so astutely points out, "we can clean up our 
own act so that people don't get that impression when they visit our 
IMC sites." Some sites do this already. Our real problem is what do 
do about those sites which do not. Let's talk about that.