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Description
  • 0. Document status
  • 1. Преамбула

Content:

  • 0. Policy status
  • 1. Preamble
  • 2. News posting
  • 3. Mission and functions of Belarus Indymedia Team
  • 4. How to join Belarus Indymedia Team
  • 5. Policy of moderation for extreme cases

o 5.1 Item hiding

o 5.2 Complete deletion of item from database

o 5.3 Content moderation

  • 6. Content usage terms
 
 

Document status
  • 3. Mission and functions of Indymedia Belarus Team
 

Current policy version 1.0 (revision 2005-05-11) includes only formal corrections applied for previous revision 2005-03-03 of policy v.1.0 voted by Belarus Indymedia Team.

Any further corrections, that ever a little change the sense and idea of policy, require additional discussion and voting in Belarus Indymedia Team. In case of successful vote, they will be included in the next version of policy.
  • 4. How to join Indymedia Belarus Team
 

0. Document status
  • 5. Policy of news moderation in special cases
 

This document is an unformal social agreement between Belarus Indymedia Team and resource users. This document is not in any way a legal contract.
  • 5.1 Item hiding
 

This issue describes principles of work of Belarus Indymedia web resource, and social обязательства, that Belarus Indymedia Team members promise to follow to while working on the project.
  • 5.2 Complete deletion from the database
 

This document development, changes and addictions are in the field of vote of Belarus Indymedia Team.
  • 5.3 Content moderation
 

Current policy version 1.0 (revision 2005-05-11) includes only formal corrections applied for previous revision 2005-03-03 of policy v.1.0 voted by Belarus Indymedia Team.

Any further corrections, that ever a little change the sense and idea of policy, require additional discussion and voting in Belarus Indymedia Team. In case of successful vote, they will be included in the next version of policy.
  • 6. Content usage terms
 

1. Преамбула

Document status
 

Indymedia is a collective of independent media and journalists, that provides uncommercial look at the news and up-to-time information channel, that is open for collaboration with and between indymedia resource users.

This issue is a current Indymedia Belarus policy version 1.0(revision 2005-05-11) english translation. This issue contains no differences in sense from the original policy version 1.0.
 

Belarus Indymedia is one of hundreds Independent Media Centers over the world, that are united in the international initiative called Indymedia.

At 2005-05-21 this issue is still on a vote of Indymedia Belarus Team.
 

Mission of Belarus Indymedia

0. Policy status
 
  1. Creation of media field for support of belarusian libertarian activists, and for open interaction between such groups.
  1. Support society with free and up-to-time information, that is not distorted by state, commercial or political censorship.
  1. Providing possibility for everyone to take part in spreading of news and analitycal information and for open discussion.

This document is an informal social agreement between Indymedia Belarus Team and users of the resource. This document is not of a legal character.
 

Belarus indymedia can not be “official voice” of any political party in any way.

The document describes principles of work of the Indymedia Belarus resource and social obligations voluntarily undertaken by the members of Indymedia Belarus Team within the limits of work on the project. The document is approved, revised and supplemented by voting of the members of Indymedia Belarus Team.
 

Our main principles are — to be open and not to be discriminative. We are ready for collaboration with anyone who shares this points.

The current policy version 1.0 (revision 2005-05-11) includes only formal corrections applied for the previous revision 2005-03-03 of policy v.1.0 approved by Indymedia Belarus Team. Any further corrections that change the sense of the policy require additional discussion and voting by Indymedia Belarus Team.
 

2. News posting

1. Preamble
 

Belarus indymedia accumulates news, that are provided both by members of Belarus Indymedia Team (BIT) and by any user of resource. For this needs Belarus Indymedia provides open publishing engine with ability for discussion of every item.

Indymedia is a collective of independent Mass Media and journalists and provides non-commercial coverage of news and up-to-time information channel that is open for collaboration with all users. Indymedia Belarus is one of more than a hundred Independent Media Centers functioning all over the world and united into the international initiative of Indymedia.
 

bq. Note:

Objectives of Indymedia Belarus
 

bq. Коллектив белорусской индимедии стремится к наиболее полной верификации размещенных новостей. В то же время наша принципиальная позиция такова: главным критерием достоверности любой информации являются ее открытое обсуждение. Ценность любой информации зависит в первую очередь от ее критичного осмысления и результатов публичной дискуссии.
  1. To create information space for support of Belarusian libertarian activists and open interaction between them.
  1. To supply society with free and up-to-time information that is not distorted by state, commercial or political censorship.
  1. To provide possibility for everyone to take part in spreading news and analytic information as well as for its open discussion.
 

For navigation convenience any news items could be groupped by topics. Помимо общей ленты новостей, отсортированной в хронологическом порядке, ресурс представляет возможность просмотра последних новостей в таких группах. Наличие любой заметки в сводке “горячих” обновлений определяется лишь фактом ее привязки к какой-либо общей теме, и не может трактоваться как присвоение одним сообщениям более высокого “рейтинга”, чем другим.

Indymedia Belarus cannot be a body of any political party.
 

Белорусская индимедия категорически и в любой форме отвергает политическую либо иную идеологическую цензуру.

Our main principles are openness and non-discrimination. We invite everyone who is ready to follow these principles to participate in the project.
 

В то же время, в целях эффективного противодействия давлению государственных органов и иных авторитарных группировок команда белорусской индимедии вынуждена в особых случаях удалять либо скрывать от просмотра в общей ленте новостей отдельные сообщения.

2. News posting
 

Список таких случаев строго определен, и содержится в главе 5.

Indymedia Belarus accumulates news that is provided by both members of Indymedia Belarus Team (IBT) and any user of the resource. For these needs Indymedia Belarus provides an open publishing engine with possibility of commentaries.
 

3. Mission and functions of BIT

Note:
 

Помимо участия в формировании ленты новостей наравне с обычными пользователями, участники команды индимедии в добровольном порядке выполняют ряд технических функций:

Indymedia Belarus Team aims at the most complete verification of posted news. At the same time our principle position is as follows: the main criterion of reliability of any information is its open discussion. The value of any information depends most of all on its critical comprehension and results of its public discussion. For navigation convenience pieces of news that are close in their subject matter can be connected with each other, thus being grouped by topics. In addition to a general news line, sorted out in the chronological order, the resource provides possibility to view the latest news in such groups. Presence of any message in the group of “hot” news is determined only by the fact of its connection to any general topic and cannot be treated as conferment of a higher “rate” to it.
 
  1. Technical support and work on futher development of resource
  1. участвуют в дежурствах по наблюдению за содержанием ресурса, оперативным пресечением информационных провокаций.
  1. участвуют в голосованиях команды по тактическим и стратегическим вопросам развития белорусской индимедии

Indymedia Belarus strongly and in any form objects to political or other ideological censorship.
 

BIT promises to keep direct contact and discussion with users in one of next ways:

However, Indymedia Belarus Team has to delete or hide from viewing in the group of general news line a certain kind of messages to provide efficient resistance to pressure of state bodies and other authoritarian institutions.
 
  1. Periodical meetings and seminars on wide field of questions with free access, that should be announced on Belarus Indymedia Web site.
  1. Support of discussion maillist with free subscription.

The list of such cases is strictly determined and is supplied in chapter 5.
 

4. How to join BIT

3. Mission and functions of IBT
 

BIT is open for new participants. New participants join the team in their own will. Participation means:

In addition to participation in news presentation along with general users, participants of Indymedia Belarus Team voluntarily undertake a range of technical functions:
 
  • а) Taking part in works on support and development of Belarus Indymedia
  1. Technical support of the resource and work on its further development
  1. Watch over the resource’s content, efficient suppression of informational provocations
  1. Participation in voting of Indymedia Belarus Team on issues of tactics and strategy of the development of Indymedia Belarus. IBT undertakes to keep direct contact and discussion with users on issues of the resource’s work in one of the following ways:
 
  • б) Have a vote in all decisions that requires BIT voting
  • Recurrent meetings and seminars on a wide range of questions with free access and timely announcement on the web site of Indymedia Belarus
  • Support of a discussion mailing list with free subscription.
 

Any participant have a right not to take part in implementation of team decisions he doesn’t agree to, but he has no rights for active resistance to such implementation.

4. How to join IBT
 

Any participant have a right to start team voting for revoking any team decisions.

IBT is open for new participants. Joining to IBT is performed voluntarily and implies the following:
 

Any participant have a right for leaving BIT in his own will. It means he loses both принятых обязательств and right to vote. Any former participant have a right to re-join BIT in any time as usual newbie.
  • a) Obligation to take part in work on the support and development of Indymedia Belarus on a voluntary basis
  • b) Franchise in all question that requires IBT voting
 

For starting voting on joining of a new member, candidate should:

Any participant has a right to not fulfill IBT’s decision with which he or she doesn’t agree, but a participant has no right for active resistance to its implementation.
 
  • a) Connect any BIT member by e-mail or any other way
  • b) Inform BIT about his/her motivation, her/his real abilities for work and his/her own wish to join the BIT.

Any participant has a right to start team voting for revoking any team decision.
 

Since this moment and until end of voting candidate have a right to access all BIT discusion about her/his participation and to forward to all BIT members his/her comments on this discussion.

Any participant has a right for unimpeded leaving IBT that means shifting off undertaken obligations and franchise. Any former participant has a right to re-join IBT on common grounds.
 

5. Policy of content moderation in extreme cases.

For starting voting on joining of a new member, a candidate should:
 

Here and later “moderator” means BIT member, who take duty on supervising resource content integrity and preventing provocations.
  • a) Contact any IBT member by e-mail or in person
  • b) Inform about his or her motivation, real abilities for participation in work of IBT and wish to join it
 

In extreme cases, described in this part, some news items could be hided from common newsline, or modified, or completely deleted from database.

Since this moment and until decision making a candidate has a right to access IBT discussion about his or her participation and a right to send his or her comments on the discussion to all participants of IBT.
 

5.1 Hiding from common newsline.

5. Policy of content moderation in special cases.
 

When item is hidden from common newsline, in can be readed without restrictions, when web interface option “show hidden items” is switched on (it’s switched off by default).

Here and later “moderator” means an IBT member who takes duty on supervising integrity of the resource content and preventing provocations.
 

Next kinds of items sould be hidden:

In special cases described below some pieces of news can be hidden from viewing in a general news line or completely deleted from the database.
 
  1. Destabilisation items, i.e. that include uncorrect information about real facts and actions.
  1. Items, signed by name of real person, but in fact not authored by this person.

5.1 Hiding from a general news line
 

5.2 Complete deletion from database

While hidden from a general news line, a message can be viewed by any user when the web interface option “show hidden items” is on.
 

When moderator has deleted item from database he/she must inform anoter BIT members about action done and give full inform about reasons for this decision.

The following messages are hidden from a general news line:
 

For preventing provocations, moderator can delete items:
  1. Ones of a destabilizing character, i.e. those that include incorrect information about events and actions.
  1. Ones falsely presented on behalf of known activists.
 
  1. That includes direct угрозы смерти и физического насилия.
  1. Items, that are itself provocating armory collisions with human victims.

5.2 Complete deletion from the database
 

For preventing offtopic flood, moderator can delete next kinds of items:

When completely deleting news from the database, a moderator must inform IBT about a taken decision and provide grounds of necessity of complete deletion.
 
  1. Items, that have main point in abuses, rising of race or national hateful, discrimination of gender,race or sexual orientation.

For preventing provocations the following messages are deleted:

  1. Threats of death and physical violence.
  1. Information whose fact of publication can be a direct and main cause of armed conflicts with human victims.

For preventing flood, the following messages can be deleted:

  1. Messages whose principal content is abuse, unleashing of national discord and racial hostility, gender, race or sexual discrimination.
  1. Commercial advertising
  1. Commercial pornography

bq. Note:

Note:
 

There are many other web resources that provide hosting for such kinds of content. Полное исчезновение таких ресурсов является одной из глобальных целей Белорусской Индимедии.

There are many other web resources that provide hosting for the mentioned kinds of content. Complete disappearance of such resources is one of the global objectives of Indymedia Belarus.
 

Белорусская Индимедия рада предоставить свои мощности под любую информацию, не подпадающую под приведенные определения.

Indymedia Belarus is eager to provide its resource for any information that is not of the kind determined above.
 

For preventing offtopic flood, moderator can delete next kinds of items::

For preserving integrity of the content the following messages can be deleted:
 
  1. Duplicate items
  1. Empty, broken or not-readable items.
  1. Duplicate messages
  1. Empty, broken or not-readable messages

5.3 Content moderation

If item include private information about any living person, that doesn’t know about fact of such publication, or didn’t agree to publish this private information, moderator have a right to delete such information from item text, with no difference of news source.

In the case if a message contains private information about any person published without his or her permission, regardless of a source for getting these data, a moderator has a right to delete this information from the text of a message.
 

In this case moderator must leave a comment about action done.

But for all that a moderator must leave a comment about his or her action.
 

6. Content usage terms

6. Content usage
 

Belarus indymedia encourages free reprinting, citating and redistributing in any other way content of the web resource. News items can be redistributed under conditions of any license listed below: GNU General Public License, GNU Free Documentation License, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike.

Publishing news items on Belarus Indymedia web resource means that author of an item accepts this content usage terms.

Indymedia Belarus encourages free reprinting, citing and spreading in any other way the content of the resource. News can be spread according to GNU General Public License, GNU Free Documentation License, or Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike by your choice. Publishing news on the Indymedia Belarus resource implies that the author of a message accepts these terms.