I disagree, Indymedia is heavily censored. There is very little free speech here. If you don't really see that, you must be smoking too much ganje. What censors need to do here is lay off and let people have their say, whether it agrees with their personal agenda or not. Until that happens, Indymedia is just another media outlet that does the same thing as other outlets. Spin it's own point of view directed by the people who moderate what can be news. That's not so independent when worldwide media outlets do exactly the same thing. If people can't have their say, how is Indymedia represenative of Independent media?

"Although Indymedia is by no means perfect, its decentralized, ultra-democratic, and technologically efficient manner makes it the best tool of the contemporary activist and alternative media movement. It is not independent in the sense that it is unhindered by subjective points of view, but it is independent in the sense it does not fall into the same traps of mainstream media."

Your comments are an oxymoron. How is indymedia "Ultra-democratic" when it is "unhindered by subjective points of view"? In order to be ultra democratic, the will of the people of is represented, not the will of a majority opinion here.