Whats "IndyMedia"??...why would the CIA raid them?

[John Prophet]

http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/10/07...id=153&tid=219

[Hungrycookpot]

Indymedia? Sounds like a sort of "underground" communications type deal. "Indy" kinda gives that impression. I know of a few organizations like that. If it is like the others i know, the only reason i can think of the CIA to raid them is censorship.

But then i know nothing about the case, so i could just as easily be wrong.

[willy_ph]

Quote:

The Independent Media Center is a network of collectively run media outlets for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of the truth. We work out of a love and inspiration for people who continue to work for a better world, despite corporate media's distortions and unwillingness to cover the efforts to free humanity.

History

The Independent Media Center (www.indymedia.org), was established by various independent and alternative media organizations and activists in 1999 for the purpose of providing grassroots coverage of the World Trade Organization (WTO) protests in Seattle. The center acted as a clearinghouse of information for journalists, and provided up-to-the-minute reports, photos, audio and video footage through its website. Using the collected footage, the Seattle Independent Media Center (seattle.indymedia.org) produced a series of five documentaries, uplinked every day to satellite and distributed throughout the United States to public access stations.

The center also produced its own newspaper, distributed throughout Seattle and to other cities via the internet, as well as hundreds of audio segments, transmitted through the web and Studio X, a 24-hour micro and internet radio station based in Seattle. The site, which uses a democratic open-publishing system, logged more than 2 million hits, and was featured on America Online, Yahoo, CNN, BBC Online, and numerous other sites. Through a decentralized and autonomous network, hundreds of media activists setup independent media centers in London, Canada, Mexico City, Prague, Belgium, France, and Italy over the next year. IMCs have since been established on every continent, with more to come.

The general consensus seems to be the fact that they disclosed the names of delegates that attended the RNC convention in New York, despite the fact that such names and information was readily available at other websites.

[willy_ph]

It's also interesting to note that the request for the drives was not submitted to Indymedia, but to Rackspace, their server host. IMO this reflects badly on Rackspace. They should've forwarded the request to their client, or challenged it in court. Especially considering that they provided drives from servers that were not located within the United States. Bad move and I hope they pay for it.

[Beemer]

Freedom of Speech is dying:
http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml

I guess all we need is the sanitized version of issues, of today, subject to approval by our perspective governments.

The age of information didn't last long. It is being replaced by the age of disinformation sponsored by the governments of the world.

Cheers!