Censorship has recently become rampant at the St. Louis Indymedia site as well. From now on, when I visit IMC sites, I'll visit the hidden articles (called the "compost bin" on some IMCs) first, as some of the best articles are there.

Until recently, St. Louis hardly hid anything, now the moderator is trigger-happy. What's worst is she leaves in obvious forgeries, duplicates, and neocon/neoliberal posts. Today she left in two right-wing pro-police articles, one that forged my username. She hid my comments on the thread.

Posters with strong opinions have little incentive to continue contributing to IMCs if their thoughts are just going to be hidden or deleted. If someone says something that might trigger a raid on the IMC computers by law enforcement, or a subpoena from the Feds, I could understand. But censoring because the censor disagrees with an opinion is intolerable.

To my counterparts in KC, my condolences that apparently some of you are having the same problems with censorship as we are in STL.