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The Taliban of the West |
Current rating: 0 |
by George Monbiot
(No verified email address) |
18 Dec 2001
Modified: 09:15:14 PM |
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There comes a time when we must be willing to sacrifice our cherrished concepts and beliefs if only for a few moments to examine what is going on, the time is now here for such a suspension of judgement. You are invited to investigate the why of current events, the results may prove startling! |
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See also:
http://www.vaticanassassins.org/
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Very Poor Ethics By The Poster Of The Above |
by ML
(No verified email address) |
Current rating: 0
18 Dec 2001
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It is rather obvious that we have acquired another conspiracy spam artist. That is bad enough in itself, but this individual is now using legitimate articles by others to serve as come-ons for their own website. (Dec. 18)
Here’s a George Monbiot article simply copied right off of Commondreams, without even the respect to format it for IMC posting. Then somebody has the nerve to attach their own weblink to the bottom of the article:
http://urbana.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=3483&group=webcast
promotes
http://www.vaticanassassins.org/
http://www.stlimc.org/front.php3?article_id=1217&group=webcast
promotes
http://hardtruth.topcities.com/blackpope.htm
http://dc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=16260&group=webcast
promotes
http://hardtruth.topcities.com/blackpope.htm
and also at numerous other IMCs in several forms, like all the articles below. I only list a representative sample of IMC links that border ours on the left side of the page to demonstrate the blatant misuse of the IMC network.
Then we have these pushed by "see material" (Dec. 16) :
http://urbana.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=3463&group=webcast
promotes
http://www.nexusmagazine.com/
and
http://www.vaticanassassins.org/
http://www.stlimc.org/front.php3?article_id=1204&group=webcast
promotes
http://www.nexusmagazine.com/
http://dc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=16172&group=webcast
promotes
http://www.nexusmagazine.com/
and
http://www.vaticanassassins.org/
Note: crossover between the two different stories of "vaticanassassins" with the previous group of posts, and also at numerous other IMCs in several forms
We have a fellow named Gavin Phillips who is also reposting lots of Mike Ruppert’s material. I like Mike and he has some interesting things to say, but reposting entire webpages of Mike’s is abusive of our Newswire if it occurs on a near-daily basis. And the pattern seems to be pretty much the same as the pattern of the poster above. Could they be one and the same poster? From our site (Dec. 18)
http://urbana.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=3481&group=webcast
http://www.stlimc.org/front.php3?article_id=1216&group=webcast
http://utah.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=1655&group=webcast
promotes
http://www.cancerinform.freewebsites.com/cancerart.html
http://dc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=16249&group=webcast
Then we have (Dec. 15)
http://urbana.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=3446&group=webcast
promotes
http://hardtruth.topcities.com/blackpope.htm
Network spam on IMC is becoming an increasing problem. Identifying it takes a little bit of analysis, but it certainly isn’t rocket science. There are several identifying characteristics:
Although the posts have very limited news content (nothing new, old story, vast conspiracies) they are invariably spammed to nearly all IMCs at times that indicate that they are being posted by one person who is just going down the list of links to all IMCs.
Sometimes these are posted by someone brazen enough to do so under their own name. Larrabee fit into this category, but has modified his behavior enough to no longer qualify as spam under U-C IMC rules, so we are allowing him to post on a weekly basis as long as his cooperation continues.
Others, such as the single individual that seems to be behind the latest flood of conspiracy theory, are somewhat harder to identify. Patterns revealed under traffic analysis usually indicate that such is the case with repeat offenders.
One-time spammers of all IMCs are becoming an increasing problem. The example of the person complaining of the "hijacking" of the student anti-war movement showed bad judgement in doing so (headline unrelated to story, inflammatory charges made without substantiation) but this must be tolerated as the stupidity of human nature.
Repeat such behavior on a daily basis and you arrive at the bottom-feeders detailed above. I find it particularly reprehensible that someone uses the writings of another as bait for a link to a the website of the reposter. This is something we may want to address, as it seems to me to be a blatant violation of fair-use, even if someone like Ruppert has given permission for non-profit reproduction. All these behaviors result in the pushing of locally generated content off of our Newswire, allowing it to be dominated by the agenda of a tiny handful of people with more time on their hands than commonsense and mutual respect in their souls.
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