[IMC Bombay] Why is secular content on IMC India being hidden ?

[Harsh Kapoor]

Dear people at IMC India and other IMC's

Earlier today a posting by me on the Indymedia India newswire was 
hidden in a matter of hours.

Here are the details:

Gandhian tells US Administration its reaction to Gujarat riots not enough
http://india.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=7417&group=webcast

I see no reason why such material should be removed and hidden from 
the newswire; this not the first time such matter has been removed 
from the newswire. In my view, elimination of such documents can only 
be perceived as blatant censorship of secular content on the IMC 
India newswire and goes against the grain of seemingly key IMC 
principles of supporting "free expression". It is important that 
reasons for hiding such content be discussed and explained.

I am still hoping that people at the Madurai collective who are 
responsible content management of IMC India newswire will open up and 
engage in some discussion regarding their policies and problems. I 
would once again request them kindly take some of us into confidence 
regarding the current situation. We would like to help reclaim this 
space and have absolutely no other interests.

rgds.

Harsh Kapoor
South Asia Citizens Web
http://www.mnet.fr/aiindex
South Asia Citizens Wire
http://sacw.insaf.net

At 2:17 AM +0200 8/31/03, boud wrote:
>On Sat, 30 Aug 2003, Shayne O'Neill wrote:
>
>>
>>  Just checked the newswire. WOW.
>>
>>  It seems to me that imc-india newswire is out of control with
>>  full-blown hate postings.
>>
>>  Does *anyone* have a suggestion on how to contact the collective if MC
>>  cant.
>
>You've already cc-ed the Madurai collective addresses that i'm aware of
>+ the imc-india mailing list.
>
>http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-india/2003-August/001001.html
>102 posts on the IMC India newswire were hidden during 6 days last week,
>so that person/people has/have little excuse not to speak up on imc-india,
>IMHO.
>
>>
>>  Intimidating ethnic minorities is NOT what indy is about.
>>
>>  Shayne.
>
>i suggest the thread goes to imc-india at lists.indymedia.org -
>
>
>For the record, the network *was* alerted to this back in jan 2003, but
>i guess IMC Perth was not in the network back then:
>
>cross-post:
>http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-india/2003-January/000722.html
>http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/new-imc/2003-January/003207.html
>
>solidarity
>boud
>
>
>
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