[Boston-editorial] Re: Huge story- anarchist web admin targeted

[Sofia JarrinT]

My gut feeling says yes, on deleting anything that
promotes acts of violence.
sofia
--- Matthew Williams <mw21 at mindspring.com> wrote:
> (For those of you not on that list, I'm replying to
> something Pete 
> posted on dispatch.)
> 
> This is some pretty serious stuff. It leaves me
> wondering how 
> vulnerable we are. Right now we have a policy of
> hiding anything where 
> someone threatens violence against specific people
> (as opposed to 
> making general arguments for armed struggle). I
> would think that makes 
> it clear that we don't endorse such things and we
> also have a 
> disclaimer on the site, disavowing responsibility
> for anything we 
> haven't specifically chosen to feature--but the FBI
> has never been one 
> for such subtleties.  I'm wondering if we should
> change over policy of 
> hiding threats of violence to deleting them. I don't
> like the idea of 
> doing so because it's rather extreme and not
> consistent with 
> open-publishing, but I would rather be safe than
> sorry. If the FBI 
> takes down our whole website, there won't be any
> place to open-publish 
> on.
> 
> -- Matt
> 
> On Mar 31, 2005, at 4:45 PM, Pete Stidman wrote:
> 
> > I would love to feature somebody's story on this:
> >
> >
>
http://boston.indymedia.org/newswire/display/34620/index.php
> >
> > It's hugely important to us and to the rest of the
> > network to get something up fast.  If anyone wants
> to
> > call around to the media experts and at least try
> and
> > figure out what the hell the FBI is doing go for
> it,
> > and I hope all of us can help.
> >
> > If you get it up quick there's about a 95% chance
> it
> > will be featured on the national site.  100% on
> ours
> > of course.
> >
> > -Pete
> >
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