Well, for one, Google has now banned Indy from their search engines. Keep up your policy of "open publishing" and soon all the other search engines will ban you as well.

I don't want Indy to be in total isolation from the rest of the web community... why not clean up the newswire. I'm tired of the infantile anarchist playground politics that say doing so is "censorship" and "against free speech."

The whole point of Indy is to allow activists and independent thinkers a place to interact with others. If you allow your enemies to undermine you by allowing ANYTHING to be posted... then slowly you will be isolated and cut off from those who should know about and use the platform. The fact that Google has banned Indy points to this... and it is only the beginning.

Google News has confirmed they have removed Indymedia from their list of news sources. Google bowed to pressure brought upon them by an email campaign organized by people who disagree with some of what gets posted under IndyMedia's policy of allowing anyone to post to the newswire, and not exerting editorial control.

People are claiming IndyMedia is "anti-semitic", because of trolls who sometimes post hateful posts on the unedited, user-supplied newswire.