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2004-01-10 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Indy Media Meltdown.. Or just a Soap Opera?

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Posted by badanov 2004-01-10 12:44:22 PM|| || Front Page|| [11138 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Couldn't have happened to a nicer group of people ... ;)

Posted by Dan Darling 2004-1-10 1:11:55 PM|| [http://www.regnumcrucis.blogspot.com] 2004-1-10 1:11:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Mr Burns: Hows the takeover of IndyMedia going Smithers?
Smithers: Well, the Chinese site were all arrested and imprisoned. The Seattle site has collapsed faster than the Seahawks. And half the San Francisco site has become Libertarians.
Mr Burns: And the other half?
Smithers: Joined the Dean Campaign.
Mr Burns: Excellent...

Posted by Charles 2004-1-10 1:19:23 PM|| 2004-1-10 1:19:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Jeez, what a bunch of drama queens. Other than the score or so morons who signed this missive "in solidarity", does anyone really give a sh*t?
I guess it's just a matter of time before one of them grabs power and starts sticking icepicks in their enemies' ears.

Posted by 4thInfVet 2004-1-10 1:31:33 PM|| 2004-1-10 1:31:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 And yet they think they could run their world...

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-1-10 1:53:18 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2004-1-10 1:53:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Every time I see a list of people holding moronic views in the Bay Area, I cringe lest I find a friend on it. When I worked there, I exchanged only the most tepid of political views with my coworkers. So I don't know if any of my friends were outright political loons. I suppose if they were, they wouldn't have been able to keep from showing it.

Another bullet dodged---no one I know is on the list.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2004-1-10 2:30:46 PM|| [http://darkblogules.blogspot.com] 2004-1-10 2:30:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 When a few of the tech members began to have personal problems with other members of the collective

Never happen here. Rantburg is run by Tyrant and enforced by the AOS, backedup by a meritocracy.

In short, Hive Bad, Steve Good.

Posted by Shipman 2004-1-10 2:31:19 PM|| 2004-1-10 2:31:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Jeez... it's like watching Stalinists and Trotskyites battling it out. Or obscure Chinese factions scrambling for control during the Cultural Revolution.

When it comes to a zest for internecine bloodletting, nothing can match a group of ardent Leftists. If they could do it, half of them would put the other half in concentration camps.

Posted by Dave D. 2004-1-10 2:40:19 PM|| 2004-1-10 2:40:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 When a few of the tech members began to have personal problems with other members of the collective

Could it be that the engineers and programmers, whose job requires a functionning brain, no longer could stand the leftist jihadis?

Posted by JFM 2004-1-10 3:25:42 PM|| 2004-1-10 3:25:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 JFM,you noticed the same thing I did.The split was not between two ideological factions,but between those who talk and those who actually do the work.The arrogant attitude of the talkers could be enough to drive "tech members" off,even if everyone agrees on politics.
Wonder if informer charge was a couple of angry members telling police of "tech members" hacking activities-anon of course.

Posted by Stephen 2004-1-10 3:40:12 PM|| 2004-1-10 3:40:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Entertaining to watch.

Face it. Man is not wired to be part of a 'collective'. All such attempts to force him into
that type of mold is doomed to fail.

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-1-10 4:43:22 PM|| 2004-1-10 4:43:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 That would explain Vandenburg's earlier report today of a giant alien Mother Ship hovering over San Francisco Bay looking for its errant, squabbling Solcialist children!

Posted by Jack Deth 2004-1-10 8:21:48 PM|| 2004-1-10 8:21:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 "has been hiding posts of news stories ...effectively censoring the indybay.org group."

Whaaat!? I thought it wasn't censoring to hide posts? Or at least thats what they always tell anybody who asks why their more centrist stories get "hidden".

As to the heart of the matter, I used to run a MUD (ok, ok, I'm a geek from before IE, UO and EQ). Well, I was the programmer for the MUD, and there was a non-technical person who "ran" the mud who had a completely different vision of what the place needed to be. Strangely, I got tired of working my butt off and having no say in the "direction", so I took the MUD with me to a new server where I called the shots. And, well, he got all bent out of shape about it, just like the "non tech" members in this situation did, down to threats of lawsuits, etc.
The non-tech person who "ran" the MUD was, not suprisingly, from San Francisco.

Guess the moral of the story is: if you don't own the equipment, don't do any work, and really don't contribute to the wellbeing of an endeavor, you can't rule like a tyrant without the risk maybe discovering you just don't have the power you think you do. Oh yeah, and communism sucks. ;)

Posted by RussSchultz 2004-1-10 9:48:35 PM|| 2004-1-10 9:48:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 At 9:22PM, MST, LGF is reporting that Arizona Indymedia is down, Israel Indymedia is down, and "Palestine" Indymedia is down. Maybe it's a virus, and all the Indymedia sites are catching it? Wonder if it's fatal...

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-1-10 11:15:53 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2004-1-10 11:15:53 PM|| Front Page Top

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