UK Indymedia Server Seizure Newswire Archive
Indymedia UK under major and sustained attack!
17-05-2011 21:54
It is now apparent that IMC UK (www.indymedia.org.uk) is currently being attacked by elements that are attempting to degrade the authority of IMC UK on the World Wide Web.Libya News Excerp DN! ::: Kwantum :::
28-02-2011 14:11
Censorship amid controversy over police on indymedia
25-01-2011 01:41
Last week the respected alternative news project SchNEWS published a story revealing long term malicious use of indymedia by elements within the states police apparatus. The piece was base on the so-called 303 Gateway article written collaboratively by a number of indymedia admins and proposed in secret as a feature for the UK site over six months ago. The proposal was blocked by London and Northern IMC. They claim they failed to get agreement on amendments aimed at distancing themselves from admissions within the article that indymedia admins had in fact had access to IP logs despite having repeatedly said the opposite in the past. Both London and Northern said that they would have no objection to the article being published as a feature on Indymedia UK if it was made clear within the article that the IP logging was a feature found within the MIR content management system used by IMC UK and its regional sites Birmingham, Cambridge, Liverpool, Oxford, Sheffield and South Coast, not those using alternative CMS such as Bristol, London, Northern, Nottingham and Scotland. However it seem tonight that their claim has be proven a lie...The draft article stated, "what has never been openly stated before is that the CMS system we use has a number of anti-abuse measures which include the ability to monitor for particular IP addresses and log their behaviour." The draft goes on to say, "site admins believed that they would never be able to gain the trust of posters, if the range of anti-abuse measures were made public. As is often the case, once a body has failed to be completely open about something, it becomes 'the elephant in the room' and so a situation was created where the new and current admins were actively blocked from bringing these measures into the open. The stalemate continued until now, with site admins proposing a new approach of coming clean about the measures that are in place, and others in the collective blocking this."
Prophetically, that stalemate over coming clean about the IP logging meant that no consensus was possible on publishing the article. There was no way that the information about the governments disinfo campaign could be published without revealing that indymedia had been lying about IP logs. Apparently some suggested it could be published via a different alt media outlet while leaving out the info about indymedia but the story would have been weak without the evidence gathered by indymedia admins.
The impasse remained but then the draft article was leaked by a disgruntled admin using the name 'indyleaks'. The posts were repeatedly hidden from the indymedia sites it was posted to and a filter set up on IMC UK to automatically hide it whenever posted.
There remains no consensus about publishing the article which includes a frank admission that indymedia has misled its user since 2003. However the lack of consensus is now a moot point since SchNEWS has ran the story and Birmingham IMC has published the 303 gateway article as a feature on it's own site.
https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/01/472622.html Both the story about the government running a disinfo campaign via indymedia, and the story that indymedia UK has been hiding the truth about IP logging for all these years, that is big news for activists at a time when trust is already in short supply.
As the article says "continuing to gloss over the reality in a misleading way was detrimental to Indymedia UK, and that there was no small likelihood that at some stage we could be outed." Now that the truth is out, lets hope indymedia can recover from the damage to its credibility and move on to become more open and honest with its users.
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fight the poisonous incinerators in uk
22-10-2010 23:03
threat of the incinerator s being built in uk
23-06-2010 21:26
incinerators increase child deaths cancers ect derby have the threat of 3 being built help advive welcome dS036.NET attacked by German Police
26-04-2010 19:41
Bristol Indymedia offline! What's happening?
09-03-2010 17:41
The wave of repression has broken over Bristol!FASCIST police dictatorship in Greece NOW!
09-12-2009 06:06
This message of urgency has also been sent to indymedia athens, but it seems that the site may have been hijacked by the greek police and it is obviously censored. The message is in Greek and I urge greek persons or persons who know greek to translate it into English first, so it can be translated into other languages too. FOR A WORLDWIDE MOVEMENT OF SOLIDARITY THAT WILL SMASH THE NEW GREEK JUNTA.NUJ Annual Delegate Meeting Supports Indymedia
20-11-2009 16:20
At today's NUJ's policy-making annual delegate meeting (ADM) in Southport, a motion supporting Indymedia was carried with nobody speaking against it.Media Freedon - Indymedia Support - Motion 12
Police seizure of a UK Indymedia server in Manchester, has prompted the ADM to call for better legal safeguards for all online content. In Motion 12, the NEC has been instructed to provide support for Indymedia through members working with the site. Charley Allan of the Morning Star said: “They need our help – they’re under attack. Indymedia are vulnerable to the police.”
http://www.nujadm.org.uk http://www.nuj.org.uk Objection by the political persecution the Indian Teacher Yupanqui Juan Esteban
19-09-2009 14:28
Because the Indian Teacher Juan Esteban Yupanqui defend the rights to education and the environment of the Native Indian Communities He has been deprived of the right to work and health.Indymedia Server Seizure news
07-09-2009 00:14
Police have dropped their controversial six-month investigation of a Sheffield IT worker who had a minor role administering the activist website Indymedia UK.stop this incinerator being built spondon has high cancer rate now
17-07-2009 23:12
cyclemax meet alvaston neighbourhood comitte in secret / burning plastic plant
01-06-2009 22:43
peace camp raynesway derby anti nuclear against trident
17-05-2009 20:57
Sheffield Live World Press Freedom Day Interview
02-05-2009 00:04
http://www.sheffieldlive.org/ on 1st May 2009 to mark World Press Freedom Day, 3rd May http://www.worldpressfreedomday.org/ topics covered include the recent server seizure, http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/actions/2009/strummer/
The police need help, but they're frightened to ask
28-02-2009 18:25
The article below taken from the Torygraph demonstrates the justifications the police aim to use in order to back moves to give them full access to all digital communications and insist on full data retention. This obviously has relevance to the recent indymedia server seizure and the arrest that followed.Police spending through the roof but little protection against crime
26-02-2009 07:56
Police today were getting a proper slagging off in the media this morning after the think tank 'Reform' published a damning report on policing in this country. The report, A New Force, found the current 43 forces operate as inefficient and expensive fiefdoms run by chief constables who are only accountable to weak police authorities. Meanwhile the UK taxpayer cough up more for policing than any other leading country yet the police fail to protect them from either serious or local crime. Sadly no media report I saw makes the connection between the inefficiency of the police on tackling crime and their increasing focus on politic policing.Full article | 1 addition | 2 comments
A Technical Guide to Anonymous Posting
13-02-2009 16:32
Recent events have got people talking and thinking about security implications of using indymedia or other online publishing outlets. Below is a guide to how to implement security measures for hiding your identity online.Man arrested in Indymedia animal extremism probe
09-02-2009 15:06
Police act on web comment including judge's details
A man has been arrested in connection with comments posted to the activist news site Indymedia.
Supporting terrorism on the net
07-02-2009 13:19
Last November, blogger Mohamed Adel, or General Mait (dead), was detained because of a photograph taken of him, with a Palestinian Hamas official. The damning evidence was clicked when Adel participated in a humanitarian caravan to the Gaza Strip.Full article | 1 addition | 8 comments
Support IMC UK!
06-02-2009 18:24
You have probably already heard this, but just in case here it is again:
"The Independent Media Center UK is a grassroots network of individuals, groups, and independent and alternative media activists committed to using media production and distribution as a tool for promoting social, economic justice. Unlike the corporate media, Indymedia UK is not owned by anyone, or funded by big commercial conglomorates and advertisers."
Internet hosting prosecuted in Italy
05-02-2009 16:29
In the light of the excuses given for the recent Indymedia server seizer in Manchester, this story is highly relevant. In Italy, a rather disturbing prosecution is taking place. Google officials, including Chief Privacy Counsel Peter Fleischer, are being criminally prosecuted for a video somebody else uploaded to YouTube.Bob Geldof's Production Company Threatens Cyber Libel Action
05-02-2009 13:06
Here's a blogger who's come under threat for criticising (UK) Kent County Council's internet-based Kent TV service. The station, paid for by tax payers in the county, is provided by Bob Geldof's production company Ten Alps. Private Eye reports (1229, p. 11):Gggollum Sues Tolkien for Cyber Libel
05-02-2009 12:33
Sir David Eady, possibly the most famous high court judge in the UK, was brought in to rule on the case of Christopher Carrie, who claims he was abused as a child by John Tolkien, a priest and scoutmaster, and son of the Lord of the Rings author. Mr Carrie was trying to sue Royd Tolkien, one of the writer’s great-grandsons and a bit-part actor in one of the massively successful Lord of the Rings films, over comments made on a website. The fact that Mr Carrie was behind the website only came out in the build-up to the court case. He had previously posted entries on the website under the name ``gggollum''.Press Release #1: IMC Server Seized by UK Police
26-01-2009 00:10
Press Release #1 on the seizure of an Indymedia server in Manchester, issued on 26.01.2009 by the IMC UK Press Group for immediate release.
Info Page: Indymedia UK server seizure 2009
25-01-2009 16:30
On 22 January 2009, an Indymedia server was seized by the Police in Manchester (UK). This was related to postings about the Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) trial in the UK [IMC UK feature].
This page provides a timeline of the events, statements of support, media reports, and further information.
IMCUK server seizure article in IMB-Barcelona
23-01-2009 19:26
Just to point to a posting about yesterday's server seizure in IMC-Barcelona: http://barcelona.indymedia.org/newswire/display/363245/index.php
