[imc-scotland-discussion] Fwd: Re: New site progress

[Ulla]

Almost all indymedias don't have a seperate rubbish bin/hidden section anymore 
because of the legal dispute concerning Imc Switzerland about carrying  
holocaust denial, neonazi and antisemitic etc. crap in their rubbish bin 
which was used by these arseholes to create their own "hidden indymedia" for 
publishing their crap, linking directly to it as a subsection and to articles 
in it. I think it was in 2002 or something, ages ago - they were sued by some 
leftwing Jewish antifascist group, very harmful that was - would need to digg 
that out again, should be somewhere on docs.indymedia.org.

And that's the problem with not having a proper editorial interface- it is 
much more difficult to have an oversight and to control spam and abusive 
comments in articles which are not current anymore, but for example several 
years old as you don't have the imediate oversight anymore.

I dont think we can rely on the Athens server to carry us and our legal 
problems for eternity, that is not fair to them as well as if there is a day 
of action in Greece then there'll be a heavy overload. Also they are carrying 
the costs for all the technical problems and the bandwith at the moment.
As well as now that Lefteris has left Scotland we don't have any direct link 
anymore to the Greek imc people and then and therefore access to the server 
is not guaranteed anymore.


bye for now
Ulla


On Friday 28 Mar 2008 14:01, Tom Morton wrote:
> Jon wrote:
> > Hi Ulla,
> >
> > I actually find the editor interface a lot easier to use exactly because
> > it doesnt have a seperate one: i think it is a more intuitive interface.
>
> Yes. I didn't want to recreate the dada editor interface, which is
> horrible.
>
> > Also - could you explain how it is legally problematic? is it because we
> > couldnt delete a libelous article or something?
>
> Yes probably I must add a 'mass delete' page, so that spam can be easily
> permanently deleted. Also so we can remove stuff in the event of a legal
> threat.
>
> But our server is in Greece. Perhaps we can tell people to bugger off if
> they want us to pull material. It has never happened to IMC scotland,
> but has to IMC UK IIRC.