[Imc-torino] "policy" translation

[maryanne a inventati.org]

The working group constituted to create Indymedia Piemonte and
administrated newswire has given itself this editorial policy. This one,
always included into minimal principles shared by all Indymedia network [
http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/DocumentsTranslation ], should be
always rediscussed, whenever the group will consider it necessary. Working
group may enlarge itself by cooptation. Posts which don't respect the
following policy will not be deleted but hidden, and will be avaiable in a
several page respect the home [hidden posts page link here]. We don't
censor anything.

1. Post with razzist, sexist and fascist contents. Indymedia Piemonte
doesn't allowed also posts with links to external websites which have the
same contents: these one will be not published, too [link to updated "black
list" websites whom we not desire directed links from posts]

2. Messages which contains pubblicitary spamming are hidden, but not
deleted. In this category are included electoral spamming, parties and
institutional propaganda. Straight pubblicitary links eventually contained
into posts (viagra, mobile ring tones, hotel, parties campaign, commercial
events) will be erased and inserted into the black list to avoid future
pubblication. By the way, about the pubblishing of dates and events of any
kind, non inherent with information elaboration and sharing, we remember
that the appropriate space is the agenda [link to the agenda] on the web
site: so that link will be hidden.

3. Double or empty messages are hidden.

4. Posts can be hidden or edited under request from who have published
them: add a comment under the message you desire to modify explaining what
you want to hide or change and why. Also out of policy posts can be
signalated from users by clicking on the xy bottom, visible
over/under/nearby at every pubblished message. In this way you may
contribute and simplify administrators work on newswire.

5. Messages generated to insult or minace are hidden. Personal diatribers
and chats about movement we hope will be in appropriate places and time,
such meetings, assemblies, slaps, roughhouses or simply drinking a beer,
avoiding to make Indymedia Piemonte a gossip media. If posts contain
personal informations they will be edited following the comma 8.3 of this
policy. To advertise about a post you think has to be edited we invite you
to use the fuction listed in comma 4 of the policy.

6. Messages without any information contents are hidden. For "no
information contents" we mean posts which are only partially included in
others comma of this policy. For example can be hidden, due to "no
information contents", a message like: "I'm bored: rebellion!"

7. .. other messages, also if doubted, ambiguous, claringly written at
Viminale or chilling are mantained in home page: we hope in a "natural"
collective answer, which clean up idiocy. And if is strictly necessary, we
ourselves (and everyone subscribed to mailing list) will protest with good
reason against shits posted by other people. Indymedia is mainteined by
partecipation, nor phoning to ask people to remove unliked posts, because
is more intelligent a serious reply to a post than a hiding action.

8. Indymedia believe into making aware users about privacy guarantee,
essential for us. Privacy is anonimate right, personal information
guarantee (photos, names, addresses, phone numbers), ours and anyone owned
by who read, publish, navigate. In spite of this:

    * 1) We invite anyone is reading this text and trust to these
tutelation to inform himself about how to do it, independently from the
publishing on this web site [
http://www.autistici.org/it/services/anon/index.html ].

    * 2) Indymedia Piemonte does NOT register IP addresses [
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indirizzo_IP ] of anyone publish posts on this
web site, so warranting a total anonymity of who desire publish on it.
Indymedia Piemonte is involved to not diffuse any kind of information or
document which can damage anyone privacy.

    * 3) Indymedia edit, that is substitute with xxx any sensible
information which can be inserted in posts (name, address...).We don't care
if these infos could be avaiable in other places or being yet public (for
example published on other web sites). For Indymedia the choise to protect
anonymity is a fondamental and political one.

    * 4) We invite anyone publish photos or videos to do it with extreme
caution and deep respect of who is cleary included in their. The safest way
to publish this kind of material is edit (link to a howto) ever and however
faces and particular signs of people included before publish it. Internet
exists in real time and Indymedia Piemonte is not an exception. When you
publish something is very probable that it will be soon read from police,
digos, journalists of any type and also from your aunt Pina (who should
never know some things). And this happens in real time, when you click on
"publish" they potentially are yet reading, like other thousands of people,
and at the same time somebody is yet copying your material ad diffusing it
on the web (this is also possible automaticly, with no one uman action), so
avoiding any kind of change and definitive deletion of post copies diffused
in Internet. So think before publish anything, think to protect yourself
and other people and wonder carefully if the risk is necessary. Indymedia
Piemonte has decided to not utilize any kind of censoring prevetion to
photographic material, so we ask you to be responsable when you publish it.
So we have setup an automatic system which everytime you publish
photographic material, focus on his potentially danger.