[New-imc] New Victoria (BC, Canada) collective: editorial policy

[Petros Evdokas]

Friends,

My apologies that I haven't written earlier.

I find that the new editorial policy guidelines (below) by the 
re-organized Victoria imc are very good. I wish most of our imc groups 
adopted similar policies - especially the "repeat offender" imc groups 
who don't seem to mind publishing right-wing hate speech, disinformation 
and other similar stuff. That way, many, many, political problems faced 
by indymedia would be pre-empted and neutralized before they even occur.

I would gladly support the idea of asking the volunteers who handle the 
DNS to point the subdomain
http://victoria.indymedia.org/
to http://www.vicindymedia.org/
or whatever other arrangement the Victoria imc group members prefer. (I 
see that their site is down at present, I'm assuming it's just a 
temporary burp in the system).

Thanks!
Petros
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Luke Woodyard wrote:
> We have thought about your comments about of our "open" editorial
> policy (or lack of policy more to the point) & after reading some
> scathing critiques of IMCs and IMC process we have decided for the
> purpose of protecting our credibility and for respect for the IMC
> goals in general, to spell out specific editorial standards for
> article content on our site. We hope you can approve of these policies
> and look forward to working with the global indymedia network soon. In
> the mean time we continue to provide our community with up to date
> alternative news coverage of events in our area.
> 
> peace, love, and free speech
> 
> Victoria IMC (vicindymedia.org)
> 
> **********************************************************************
> 
> To submit an article you must first become a registered user.
> 
> Anybody can register as a user. Registration does not require approval
> from moderators.
> 
> Once registered a user can submit an article. All articles must be
> approved by site moderators before  being posted on the site.
> 
> All articles that meet our editorial policy will be treated with equal
> respect and will be posted in the correct place.
> 
> Our  Editorial Policy is as follows.
> 
> Articles MUST MEET THE FOLLOWING CRITERIA to be posted:
> 
> - Front page articles must be relevant to the Vancouver
> Island/Sunshine Coast area.
> 
> - All articles must be real news stories about events/actions that
> have or are going to take place in real life; This is not a site for
> personal rants.
> 
> Articles containing the following content WILL NOT BE POSTED
> 
> - Articles that contain oppressive, hateful, racist, fascist,
> xenophobic, sexist content, or any other content that is considered by
> the editorial collective to be contrary to the objective of human
> equality.
> 
> - Obviously non-factual or misleading material.
> 
> - Personal or product promotion.
> 
> - Mass-posted articles/spam.
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