Friday, May 19, 2006

IndyBay's demise

IndyBay is now a wasteland. The hidden comments section is GONE. Screw dialogue, they say, lets have diatribes...from one side. What is the point of this, and how is it in the spirit of open publishing, work towards peace, understanding, tolerance, and freedom of informatiom? I haven't the foggiest. The Left of Northern California is now officially deprived of open publishing IndyMedia...SFIMC is controlled by Nessie and only has his stuff, IndyBay is gone, and Santa Cruz...well that's a topic I ought to write more on, some other time. They have shut out Becky Johnson, fabulous journalist and effective activist, because she has written in support of Israel. Listening to their interviews is disgusting...a bunch of self righteous pricks, really, who ask the same question over and over again after being proved irrelevant.

To see the IndyBay Zio-pack (it's a shame this is all anonymous, it would be good fun to have events), we're all at la.indymedia.org...myself, Becky, Tia, Gehrig, Schtarker Yid, and our old friend the Israeli who was autoblocked at IndyBay last year and posts as autoblocked@IndyBay. Nessie and Toady (the one who never makes his own arguement but instead posts links to Allison Weir's website and short slogans like "Zionism is Racism"are joined by blatant anti-Semite Sheepdog (who once said "I hate 95% of Jews and immediately followed it up with "Yeah, I hate 95% of assholes"....nice slip).

16 comments:

Roland Dodds said...

Indybay is as good as dead. I already miss being able to see the hidden comments, I spend a lot less time looking through the articles now that I know I will not be able to see the dissenting opinions. They shouldn’t be ‘hiding’ any of the comments (at least not the reasonable nonconforming ones), but at least we could find them before.

Roland Dodds said...

And please, comment on the Santa Cruz Indymedia site. It is the IM I check most frequently having been a graduate of the UC there. I would like to hear more about the way they run their ship if you have some info.

jams o donnell said...

I must admit I am not a frequent visitor to indymedia sites but what does horrify me is the high degree of anti semitism. Criticising the actions of Israel is justifiable but when I see the vile rubbish of the likes of la voz de aztlan I am disgusted.

Nice blog. I will return!

Jams

Anonymous said...

>The Left of Northern California is now officially deprived of open publishing IndyMedia

This is another Zionist lie. What actually happened was the racists of Northern California have been officially deprived of the free soap box that they have been using to preach their filth to the left.

Roland Dodds said...

Hot Dogs! I guess I am now part of a "Zioinst lie"! Boy do I feel proud!

charismatic megafauna said...

Haha.

Hmm, was that Nessie?

Anonymous said...

Reports of the demise of Indybay are greatly exaggerated. Not only that, they are completely factually incorrect and merely the wishful thinking of a small handful of detractors.

http://www.indybay.org/news/2006/05/1822786.php

Anonymous said...

Hi cm,

Just surfed over here from Indymedia Watch and seen the face saving drivel by one of the Indybay censors above.

Only minutes ago I noticed I couldn't surf over to Indybay because I was asked to enter a username and password which I don't have, obviously. The site has gone club-member -- another own goal by those scum. Curious if you'll encounter the same thing. I just launched a thread about this topic on LA-IMC. Either way your input is welcome.

charismatic megafauna said...

GEHRIG!!! Haven't seen you much, lately.

Ben Kosiba (by the way, I'm confused, are you Critical Thinker/Scapegoated Jew, or somebody else?), I don't have to log in but viewing is definitely much harder, though maybe I'm just having trouble adjusting. I dunno, but I'm gonna stick with LA-IMC.

And Nessie, just because there are some views (by the way, looks like the graphs only go through May, though I didn't look at all of them), doesn't mean there is great contribution and debate. But what would you know, your site doesn't even have readers?

Anonymous said...

Ben Kosiba is confused to. You need not worry. He/she has gone by many names: "Get antisemites off the progressive left" "Brad Sellars" Bobby Twofingers" "Shime on Ben Kosiba" "autoblocked at Indybay" and most recently"Scapegoated Jew".
He was the spammer from hell for a long time until his nutty ass was autoblocked.

Anonymous said...

"Anonymous" is of course one of the antisemitic degenerate assholes who edit at Indybay. He knows from the IP addresses that ben Kosiba (note how he writes "Shime on" omitting the ` character that represents a guttural consonant, thereby betraying his utter ignorance of Hebrew) and myself couldn't possibly be "brad Sellers" or "Bobby Twofingers" etc. but that never stopped this slimeball from parroting his lie.

CM, I know you don't like to censor and you run your blog as you see fit, but I'm a bit sorry you even allow these Indybay creeps a say here.

charismatic megafauna said...

SJ,

I won't stifle speech. Period. End of story. I'm happy to prove them wrong, though.

You see, unlike Indymedia, I have values, and I stick to them

Anonymous said...

"Scapegoated Jew" or is it " shetizdayen indeebay" now? Has proven himself a full blown basket case. His incessant spamming on indybay is what got him banned--literally up to 100 times per night. Now he goes off to play his trolling games elsewhere--good ridance to the fuckwad. Why is he scared to go to his own israel IMC?
Kinda makes ya wonder.

Anonymous said...

I've been seeing this "scared" riff about me for months now with no substantiation whatever. A much better question to ask is, why is the Indybay.org editor known as 'toady' always afraid of posting under his own name or a consistent nym? How richly ironic while such a subhuman whackjob charges another with cowardice.

I don't give a crap one way or another that I'm banned on Indybay.org (permanently? Who cares.). I for my part have kicked 'toady' pretty hard for more than year on end, so I will never feel like a sucker. His biggest fortune is that I've been unable to subdue him electronically since I don't have a mastery of the computer sciences.

Anonymous said...

Hmm. There are saying some nasty things about *us* at "Thunderbay"

http://thunderbay.indymedia.org/news/2006/12/27041_comment.php#27540

You're an inflitrator, CM- you naughty, naughty girl. Why didn't you tell me?

Anonymous said...

"Indybay is as good as dead."

If failed predictions were nickles, you'd probably be rich.

As it is, you are simple a deluded zionist, who like all zionists, wants to see the death of all those who disagree with your supremicist ideologies.

Fortunately, such a genocide of people or ideas is beyond your power. All you can do is make false predictions of your own unquestioned dominance.