http://indymedia.org.il
" Go, Chuck O!"Thursday 20 Mar 2003
author: Cindy
Chuck makes a series of excellent points, which turn on several problems: "Should there be a limited set of controls over what's published on the site?"; "Who controls IMC and why?", and "Don't overtly and covertly fascist (Chuck uses the term "right wing") forces always attempt to occupy common spaces and materials for their own agenda?"
Any recent history of contemporary resistant organizations and efforts will show the danger of infiltration by fascist forces whose effect was the destruction of the material or space. See the discussion of the political cell in Critical Arts Ensemble's "Digital Resistance" (Autonomedia, 1994).
Second, if there is the freedom to speak, there is also the desire to have say in the outcome of one's labors (the IMC Site') which constitutes an active politics and which is denied only to the detriment of the laborers. In other words, if those who make the IMC site do not attempt to have some control over how their labor is used, it can be used by the cancerous powers of fascism.
Finally, IMC stands to lose everything if those who contribute cannot engage in a discussion and attempt to control, to the best of their ability, the misuse of their labors. IMC will become a trash site.