[imc-scotland-discussion] "Why Indymedia Sucks"

[chris]

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http://london.indymedia.org.uk/articles/1541

A report from the weekend's Anarchism conference in London, gauging folks'
attitudes to (an unspecified) "Indymedia".

Short, with food for thought.

Postively, I reckon IMC Scotland scores OK on this part:
"Indymedia would be better if:

    * it could bring a more political perspective to things instead of
having a laundry list of actions.  The "why" of an action is often left out
of reports.
    * it would shut down sites which had no moderation collectives
immediately.  Some of the people we talked to had experiences where people
were basically slandering their political groups (or them personally) on
Cleveland Indymedia (or some such godforsaken place) but the moderators
wouldn't do anything about it.
    * the comments didn't suck so much
    * it had more not-political stuff
    * the sense of whining victimhood which shines through in most of the
posts was not so apparent"

What do others think?

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chris h


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