[imc-scotland-discussion] Request to remove comments from article

[Jon]

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I believe that the MOD just had a cut and paste of our article, from
indymedia scotland. So presumably the only thing of interest was the
comments, which were not really very interesting!

Jon


> very interesting issue. Pity the site is password protected, it would have 
> been much more enlightening if Alex Cabb would have done a copy and paste of 
> the article ;-) 
> 
> Therefore it doesn't seem that much information would be lost if the comment 
> is hidden or not, either way, it doesn't seem to be a big issue.
> 
> As for involving the Metropolitan Computer Crime Unit thingy, that's quite 
> ridiculous, isn't it?
> 
> Anyways, what would you like to do about it? I don't care either way. 
> We could just leave it up and see whats happening or hide it out of 
> politeness. 
> I don't think the comment is worth much hassle though, as long as we can't 
> actually see the article on the MOD website :-(
> 
> I do agree though that we should have made the original article a feature. 
> Maybe we should do it just now as a glimpse of late enlightenment.
> 
> Anyways, on Indy Uk there are always a lot of complaints trying it on. Usually 
> nothing is ever heard from them again. In the case of activists we usually 
> try to fulfill requests if they are reasonable and concern themselves, or 
> postings by themselves or mention full names in a context we can't legally 
> prove or so.
> 
> I don't even think we would legally under publishing law have to remove the 
> comment mentioned below.
> 
> bye for now
> Ulla
> 
> 
> 
> On Friday 16 May 2008 13:28, Tom Morton wrote:
>> Hello friends,
>>
>> People getting tech at imcscotland.org will have noticed that we've got a
>> message from webmaster at modpol.net requesting that we remove a comment
>> from indymedia scotland. Here is the message:
>>
>> MODPOL wrote:
>>> Good evening
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I refer to the following article on your site at:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "Plod Can't Out-Punk Faslane Picnic"  -
>>> http://scotland.indymedia.org/node/10263
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Someone calling themselves "Alex Cabb" left the following as a comment:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> =============================================
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> MODPOL
>>>
>>> Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 15/05/2008 - 20:42
>>>
>>> >From the MODPOL site article on the punx picnic.......
>>>
>>> with love from Alex Cabb, their newest member!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> [copies of comments from MODPOL here...]
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> =============================================
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I'd be very grateful if you could delete the above entry, the copies were
>>> made from the private area of our site without permission as well as
>>> using a false ID to gain membership of the site - a priceless irony J
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I shall be forwarding our web logs and other evidence to the Metropolitan
>>> Police Computer Crimes Unit tomorrow morning and any assistance to remove
>>> the comment would be appreciated.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Kind regards
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Roy Large
> 
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