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Parent Article: Tactics for not allowing tyranny to smash us! |
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Re: Tactics for not allowing tyranny to smash us! |
by nes AKA DAN "Indymedia Is the Victim of My Sickness" Disinfo
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06 Sep 2004
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. . . we need to look at how indymedia got started, what it means to have IMC's be decentralized networks of power rather than one central body, what free speech is as opposed to democratic, community, or radical speech.
First off, the Independent Media Center was founded in San Francisco (we are the parent sight)
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It is worth looking at the San Francisco Mission Statement to understand where indymedia is coming from. It's also of particular relevance to this discussion that free speech does *not* appear anywhere in the San Francisco or uk mission statements.
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Free speech is a concept that is rooted in liberal romanism. The idea is wrapped up in the ideologies of Locke, Hume, and Rousseau. As Leftists why should we reject their ideology in the political and economic spheres but still maintain this unquestioned attachment to the concept of 'free speech'?
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. . . we basically have this romantic notion of free speech, and the reality that free speech doesn't mean anything with out a distribution system. A large part of what indymedia does is act as a distribution system. It's not a distribution system of whatever people want to post, or even representing every view regarding political topics. It is a distribution system who's goal is "to further the goals of San FranciscoIMC, and to illuminate and analyze local and global issues that impact ecosystems, communities and individuals." |
