Manila Indymedia Editorial Policy

adapted from Perth Indymedia

1. To provide an open-publishing newswire in accordance with established indymedia policies and philosophy.

2. To maintain the newswire and website as a space that welcomes members of disempowered or marginalized groups.

3. To acknowledge that words have the power to cause injury, but those instances of injurious speech or writing should also be seen as opportunities for a critical or insurrectionary response.

4. To preserve the quality of the website as a useful media resource.

NEWSWIRE PROTOCOL

Manila 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.

HIDING POSTS

The Manila 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). All hidden posts (exceptions noted below) should be notified to the collective email list:imc-ph-manila@lists.indymedia.org so that the Editorial Collective has the chance to agree or disagree with the hiding of the post.

NOTIFIABLE REMOVALS

1. Posts the author has requested be hidden.

2. Posts which are obviously incorrect or misleading. This includes attempts to spread disinformation or to impersonate another individual.

3. Posts that incite violence against disempowered members of the community. Threats to maim or kill.

4. Posts which publish identifying information without the individual's knowledge or consent.

5. Posts which use language, imagery, or other forms of communication to promote racism, fascism, xenophobia, homophobia, sexism etc., or any other form of discrimination. Persistent nuisance posts to the newswire or comments sections.

6. Posts that are deemed to be devoid of content or analysis and appear to be published with the sole purpose of disruption.

7. Abuse of others in the form of personal attacks. Indymedia is not a space for people to play out personal vendettas.

8. Posts that are pornographic, but not sexually explicit satire.

NON-NOTIFIABLE REMOVALS

1. Unreadable formats for e.g., photos posted as text / text only posts without relevance nonsense/flooding.

2. Duplicate/Repetitive posts.

3. Advertising of products or for-profit services.

4. Notification or cancellation of events. Please use the events calendar. These may be moved to appropriate wire.

Note: Hidden comments can be viewed by clicking on the link at the top of each article.

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 Manila IMC Collective, please contact us at imc-ph-manila@lists.indymediaSTOPSPAM.org and refer to our statement at: Manila IMC info page

COPYRIGHT OF FEATURES AND ARTICLES

All posts made to the newswire are effectively covered by the principles of "COPYLEFT" (http://www.cat.org.au/maffew/cat/openpub.html). The author retains the moral right to be recognized 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.

Under no circumstances may articles or features from the Manila IMC site be reproduced in full and in a fee-paying or for-profit medium. However, for-profit media may quote from articles or features in accordance with "fair use" copyright principles.

Specific queries about reproduction of an article or feature can be referred to the editorial collective at: imc-manila-editorial@lists.indymediaSTOPSPAM.org

-- JongPerez - 26 Feb 2005
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