Policy

The working group constituited to create Indymedia Piemonte and administrate newswire has give itself this editorial policy. This one, always included into minimal principles shared by all Indymedia network ( http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/DocumentsTranslation ), should be always rediscussed, whenever the group will consider it necessary. Working group may enlarge itself by cooptation. Posts which don't respect the following policy will not be deleted but hidden, and will be avaiable in a several page respect the home [hidden posts page link here]. We don't censor anything.

1. Post with razzist, sexist and fascist contents. Indymedia Piemonte doesn't allowed also posts with links to external websites which have the same contents: these one will be not published, too (link to updated "black list" websites whom we not desire directed links from posts).

2. Messages which contains pubblicitary spamming are hidden, but not deleted. In this category are included electoral spamming, parties and institutional propaganda. Straight pubblicitary links eventually contained into posts (viagra, mobile ring tones, hotel, parties campaign, commercial events) will be erased and inserted into the black list to avoid future pubblication. By the way, about the pubblishing of dates and events of any kind, non inherent with information elaboration and sharing, we remember that the appropriate space is the agenda on the web site: so that link will be hidden.

3. Double or empty messages are hidden.

4. Posts can be hidden or edited under request from who have published them: add a comment under the message you desire to modify explaining what you want to hide or change and why. Also out of policy posts can be signalated from users by clicking on the xy bottom, visible over/under/nearby at every pubblished message. In this way you may contribute and simplify administrators work on newswire.

5. Messages generated to insult or minace are hidden. Personal diatribers and chats about movement we hope will be in appropriate places and time, such meetings, assemblies, slaps, roughhouses or simply drinking a beer, avoiding to make Indymedia Piemonte a gossip media. If posts contain personal informations they will be edited following the comma 8.3 of this policy. To advertise about a post you think has to be edited we invite you to use the fuction listed in comma 4 of the policy.

6. Messages without any information contents are hidden. For "no information contents" we mean posts which are only partially included in others comma of this policy. For example can be hidden, due to "no information contents", a message like: "I'm bored: rebellion!".

7. Other messages, also if doubted, ambiguous, glaringly written at Viminale or chilling are mantained in home page: we hope in a "natural" collective answer, which clean up idiocy. And if is strictly necessary, we ourselvesev (and everyone subscribed to mailing list) will protest with good reason against shits posted by other people. Indymedia is mainteined by partecipation, nor phoning to ask people to remove unliked posts, because is more intelligent a serious reply to a post than a hiding action.

8. Indymedia believe into making aware users about privacy guarantee, essential for us. Privacy is anonimate right, personal information guarantee (photos, names, addresses, phone numbers), ours and anyone owned by who read, publish, navigate. In spite of this:

* 1) We invite anyone is reading this text and trust to these tutelation to inform himself about how to do it, independently from the publishing on this web site. * 2) Indymedia Piemonte does NOT register IP addresses of anyone publish posts on this web site, so warranting a total anonymity of who desire publish on it. Indymedia Piemonte is involved to not diffuse any kind of information or document which can damage anyone privacy.

* 3) Indymedia edit, that is substitute with xxx any sensible information which can be inserted in posts (name, address...).We don't care if these infos could be avaiable in other places or being yet public (for example published on other web sites). For Indymedia the choise to protect anonymity is a fondamental and political one.

* 4) We invite anyone publish photos or videos to do it with extreme caution and deep respect of who is cleary included in their. The safest way to publish this kind of material is edit (link to a howto) ever and however faces and particular signs of people included before publish it. Internet exists in real time and Indymedia Piemonte is not an exception. When you publish something is very probable that it will be soon read from police, digos, journalists of any type and also from your uncle Sam (who should never know some things). And this happens in real time, when you click on "publish" they potentially are yet reading, like other thousands of people, and at the same time somebody is yet copying your material ad diffusing it on the web (this is also possible automaticly, with no one uman action), so avoiding any kind of change and definitive deletion of post copies diffused in Internet. So think before publish anything, think to protect yourself and other people and wonder carefully if the risk is necessary. Indymedia Piemonte has decided to not utilize any kind of censoring prevetion to photographic material, so we ask you to be responsable when you publish it. So we have setup an automatic system which everytime you publish photographic material, focus on his potentially danger.