Decision Making Policy and Processes
Aims and Objectives
Newswire Protocol
Open Publishing
Our policy in brief
Hiding Posts
Copyleft
Aims and Objectives
- To provide an open-publishing newswire in accordance with established Indymedia
policies and philosophy.
- To maintain the newswire and website as a space that welcomes members of
disempowered or marginalised groups.
- To acknowledge that words have the power to cause injury, but that instances
of injurious speech or writing should also be seen as opportunities for a
critical or insurrectionary response.
- To preserve the quality of the website as a useful media resource.
Newswire Protocol
Adelaide IMC hosts an open-publishing newswire. Members of the editorial
collective regularly monitor the newswire, keeping their eyes open for particularly
significant, informative contributions to add to the centre-column features
section.
Open Publishing
Open publishing means that the process of creating news is transparent
to readers. They can contribute a story and see it instantly appear in a pool
of stories. Readers can see editorial decisions being made by others. They can
see how to get involved and help make editorial decisions. If they can think
of a better way for the software to help shape editorial decisions, they can
copy the software because it is free and change it and start their own site.
Policy in Brief We have adopted a policy to allow a wide range of stories and comments,
restricted only if the material is overtly or consistently racist, sexist,
homophobic or hate-mongering.
We assume contributors are familiar with the laws of libel,
and will refrain from publishing such material.
We reserve the right to remove such material if it is brought to our attention.
We actively encourage material which adds to the discussion of how we move to a more open,
just and tolerant world.
Hiding Posts
The Adelaide IMC editorial collective, in order to maintain the integrity
of the newswire and the media commons it creates for our community of participants,
may "hide" posts to the newswire when the content contravenes the guidelines
that have been put in place (see below for gory details). All hidden posts (exceptions noted
below) must be notified to the collective admin email list so that the admin
collective has the chance to agree or disagree with the hiding of the post.
Notifiable Removals
- Posts the author has requested be hidden.
- Posts which are obviously incorrect or misleading. This includes attempts
to spread disinformation or to impersonate another individual.
- Posts that incite violence against disempowered members of the community.
- Threats to maim or kill.
- Posts which publish identifying information without the individual's knowledge
or consent.
- Posts which use language, imagery, or other forms of communication to promote
racism, fascism, xenophobia, homophobia, sexism etc., or any other form of
discrimination.
- text only posts less than 100 words long
- Persistent nuisance posts to the newswire or comments sections.
- Posts that are deemed to be devoid of content or analysis and appear to
be published with the sole purpose of disruption.
- Abuse of others in the form of personal attacks. Indymedia is not a space
for people to play out personal vendettas.
Non-notifiable Removals
- Unreadable formats (eg. photos posted as text).
- Duplicate posts.
- Advertising of products or for-profit services.
- Pornography, but not sexually explicit satire.
- Notification or cancellation of events.
Please use the events
calendar.
Hidden posts can be viewed here.
If you don't agree with a decision
We strive to make decisions in the most democratic, transparent and
accountable manner. If you have any questions or concerns regarding our policy
or our practice, or would like to work with the Adelaide IMC, please <
a href="http://www.adelaide.indymedia.org.au/contact.php">contact
us
Copyright
of Features and Articles
Unless otherwise indicated, all posts made to the newswire are effectively covered
by the principles of
Copyleft. The author retains the moral right to be recognised as the author
of the article in question, but the article is free for distribution for non-profit
and educative purposes. Articles may be reproduced in full for any purpose and
in any media provided the reproduction is subject to the same principles as
laid out here, that is, the same representations of the copyleft of the article
must appear alongside the article.
Authors may choose to copyright their work under one of the Creative Commons licences
Under no circumstances may articles or features from the Adelaide IMC site be reproduced
in full in a fee-paying or for-profit medium. However, for-profit media may quote from
articles or features in accordance with Australian "fair use" copyright principles.
Specific queries about reproduction of an article or feature can be referred
to the editorial collective.
Last updated Sat, 4 Sept 2004 23:21:38 +0000
