[IMC-Boston-Editorial] Fwd: Re: [IMC-Boston-Discuss] Community Accountability and IMC

[Sofia JarrinT]

just fyi

--- Sofia JarrinT <sofiajt at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 08:30:01 -0800 (PST)
> From: Sofia JarrinT <sofiajt at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [IMC-Boston-Discuss] Community
> Accountability and IMC
> To: imc-boston at lists.indymedia.org
> 
> The article with comments on it has been unhidden.
> The
> new article has been hidden as a duplicate post.
> Sometimes editors will hide something that might
> seem
> slanderous to an organization. Comments from the
> community help us make these decisions. Thanks for
> bringing it up.
> 
> cheers,
> Sofia
> 
> --- Tree Monkey <bangarangatan at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > Greetings, 
> > 
> > I would greatly appreciate a discussion as to the
> > policy relating to the hiding of the article that
> > detailed the unethical email tracking policies
> being
> > practiced by Mobe. The problem of privacy
> intrusion
> > and adware/malware is a growing one and this
> > emergence
> > of the issue out of the realm of spam for Viagra
> and
> > into the realm of activist organizations is a very
> > threatening one. I was very glad to see that
> someone
> > had gone to the effort to call Mobe out on this
> > flagrant violation of basic respect for privacy
> and
> > the introduction of such unscrupulous practices
> > within
> > the activist community. I am mystified as to why
> it
> > was hidden and, even moreso, as to the rather
> > bizarre
> > comments that were given by the editor who hid it.
> > 
> > This article was well-researched and, though I did
> > not
> > write it, I do personally know the author. 
> > 
> > The article should be re-instated on the newswire
> as
> > soon as possible and the editor responsible for
> > hiding
> > this article should explain his/her actions. 
> > 
> > Further, it would appear necessary - again - that
> > BIMC
> > clarify for the community and itself that editors
> > should not go around hiding things written by and
> > for
> > the activist community as doing so creates
> > unneccessary animosity between BIMC staff and the
> > activist community and undermines the legitimacy
> of
> > BIMC as a forum for the activist community
> > (especially
> > in this case in which a well-research, factual
> > article
> > was taken down for no more reason than its
> presence
> > being opposed by the offending organization
> itself).
> > 
> > For a world without bosses,
> > Frank Little
> > 
> > 
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