Open Letter to Indymedia.org

I posted an article on the Portland Indymedia about Christian youth and their music. Particularly Christian punk, metal, rap and hardcore. It was titled "Underground culture - JCHC Punx / Metal / Hardcore / Rap" I also posted an article announcing a Demon Hunter concert. None of these were against your publishing guidelines which read as follows



portland indymedia worker drones reserve the right to hide posts that:



1. advocate criminal activity indicating a specific time, place and/or manner

2. are duplicate posts (the most recent remaining on the newswire)

3. are obviously libelous or slanderous

4. interfere with the technical functionality of the website

5. are intended to disrupt the site

6. are empty posts (no content or gibberish)

7. are commercial advertisements

8. promote racism, homophobia, sexism, or other discrimination.

9. are obviously incorrect or misleading, including attempts to spread dis-information

10. are reposted from corporate media outlets



Other posts might be composted accordingly.



obviously, you have a blatant bais against cultures and beleifs that you do not agree with (namely anything Christian) that contradicts the "rainbow family ideas" or "new age philosophy". Indymedia, you advertise yourself to be an open newswire. It is obvious that you practice censorship. This is hypocrisy and makes you no better than CNN or FOX News, only this is a news outlet run and dominated by the left, just like MSM is corporate run. Both have bad bias and your "news" is so badly distorted. You stand for equality, yet you discriminate.

Digital Freedom - Open Source Vs. Closed Source

The open source revolution is here to stay and the software corporations are fighting it. Microsoft is trying to illegally stop the propagation of the Linux operating system by claiming that Linux violates over 100 software patents held by Microsoft. It is both illegal and immoral for Microsoft to use its monopoly power to force their bug-ridden products on the industry. Vista is buggy by all means and it runs slow. It also uses a substantial amount of system resources to run, using 2 GB of memory to run efficiently and 1 GB to run at all. Linux only uses about 700 MB of memory with Compiz running. Linux with Compiz does everything Vista does and more. In particular, the Ubuntu distribution of Linux is easy to install and run, running "out of the box". Linux usually takes up less space on the hard drive. It is a better, more efficient operating system.

One of the problems in the computer industry is that hardware manufacturers are slow to provide support for Linux. This gives Windows an unfair advantage in the market. Also, Windows is often the only choice when a new machine is bought, but comanies like Dell is offering Ubuntu as an option for an installed OS.

Another problem with Vista is that it "phones home". It is secret what information Vista sends back to the Microsoft servers but I don't trust it for one minute. It reminds me of spyware. Another problem is that it encourages DRM or digital rights management. DRM limits a user's freedom to use a particular software, video or music product as the user sees fit. I don't like DRM. It is defective by design and I will not buy music from online music stores - I will get the CD at a record store.

My laptop came with Vista installed and it took me fifteen minutes to figure out how to reset the computer so it would boot off the Ubuntu CD. I called it the "Windows that would not take no for an answer." Needless to say, Vista only lasted that fifteen minutes, then it got erased, with Ubuntu getting installed over it after a reformat of the hard drive.

>Jesus|Freak