Changes between Version 4 and Version 5 of metrospoof

Timestamp:

Jul 5, 2010, 11:49:52 PM (14 years ago)

Author:

Jamie McClelland

Comment:

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metrospoof

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 The political spoof site http://metr0.co.uk is still up and running. The site is a spoof of http://metro.co.uk, a tabloid specializing in celebrity gossip and distributed widely in England by the Associated Newspapers Ltd company. 
 
-The spoof site was created by Plentyfact, an activist organization in England, in response to a call for two days of action against racist press and in conjunction with a printed version of the paper.
+The spoof site is maintained by plentyfact, an autonomous Internet collective, in response to a call for two days of action against racist press and in conjunction with a printed version of the paper. The website is a digital version of a printed spoof newspaper which has been distributed in London, UK.
 
 The website is hosted in the United States on one of May First/People Link's servers managed by the Tachanka collective, an MF/PL member.
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 "May First/People Link has consistently challenged the use of DMCA to curtail web free speech," MF/PL Co-Director Alfredo Lopez said. "The law is outrageous because it literally imposes a penalty and a legal cure of a violation before it even tests for that violation. It's like executing someone for murder and then trying him for it and the victim ends up being the First Amendment which is fundamental to our collective survival in this country. We at MF/PL resist such assaults on freedom as vigorously as humanly possible."
 
-Plentyfact added: "The behaviour of Newspaper Associated Ltd is just ridicoulous: Their legal threats against an anti-racist initiative, social centres and websites around half the globe exposes that their statement that Metro 'avowedly doesn't take a political stance' is a bad joke.  Not only do they show a complete lack of humor, they also appear to be determined to supress any criticism of their bad journalism whatsoever. How scared do you have be to hide such undertakings behind copyright claims?  But hey, we are talking about a company who publishes newspapers like the Daily Mail here. They don't even know what their own logo looks like."
+plentyfact added: "The behaviour of Newspaper Associated Ltd is just ridicoulous: Their legal threats against an anti-racist initiative, social centres and websites around half the globe exposes that their statement that Metro 'avowedly doesn't take a political stance' is a bad joke.  Not only do they show a complete lack of humor, they also appear to be determined to supress any criticism of their bad journalism whatsoever. How scared do you have be to hide such undertakings behind copyright claims?  But hey, we are talking about a company who publishes newspapers like the Daily Mail here. They don't even know what their own logo looks like."
 
 May First/People Link is a politically progressive membership organization specializing in Internet work, one of the largest in the world with 300 organizations and about 100 individuals as members. It provides Internet resource to over 2,000 progressive activists in this country and is a leader in technology work at such events as the World and U.S. Social Forums.
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+plentyfact is an autonomous internet collective. It is our aim to support non-hirarchical initiatives and projects, who are working for open borders, freedom of movement, a frew flow of information and who are opposed to any form of discrimination, such as racism, sexism, anti-semitism or other kinds of supression as well as any other form of exploitation. we won't support any project which promotes any dicriminating content.