The Portland cell Indymedia.org decided to play “hide the hate” after the nation heard of their vicious posts against U.S. war hero Pat Tillman. If you click on the link I provided yesterday in my post, all you’ll get now is a defensive lecture on the nature of “open publishing.” To wit:
At the heart of Indymedia is the principle of “Open Publishing”, which allows anyone to self-publish their work on the IMC web sites. The IMC Newswire encourages people to become the media by posting their articles, analysis, videos, audio clips and artwork directly to the web site using the “Publish” form.
Indymedia relies on the people who post to present their information in a thorough, honest, accurate manner, but has no control over what people post. After an article has been posted, it can be removed from the Newswire and placed in the compost bin.
Of course, if you click on the link to “compost bin,” you still won’t find the Tillman piece. It may have taken a national “day of rage” (to borrow a silly leftist phrase) for Indymedia.org to realize it, but those comments about Tillman couldn’t even qualify as compost.
(Of course, you can still read about what was said by clicking on any number of Google entries about it, not to mention James Taranto’s entry under “The Face of Hate.”)
(Hat tip: Jerry Agar.)
