The main section of the Indymedia Romania website is represented by the middle column that contains the latest news, announcements, opinions, and essays. The editorial team will actively pursue and select content for this column, making decisions collectively. The right-hand column of the site is a newswire open to everyone (Open Publishing Newswire). Through the O.P. channel, Indymedia is intended to represent more than the work of a closed editorial team - those visiting the site have the opportunity to get involved directly by posting from the browser their own articles, photos, and audio and video materials. The editorial team will read this newswire in order to select interesting news that can be added to the central column.

Since Indymedia Romania promotes freedom of expression and is opposed to censorship based on our mission statement, we will also monitor the open newswire and comments in order to move to the publicly accessible trash those texts:

1. that violate other people's rights or censor other people's free expression by discriminating against individuals based on nationality, race, ethnicity, religion, gender or sexual preference;

2. whose content might not discriminatory, but which i. come from organizations or individuals whose mission and goals are in fundamental conflict with ours (because they promote ethnic hatred, homophobia, religious discrimination, gender-based discrimination, etc) or ii. aim to advertise such organizations and individuals;

3. that incite to violence or are strictly personal attacks, outbursts, or uncontrolled reactions.


We will also eliminate from the open newswire those texts and comments which are

4. spam (contain for-profit advertising; do not have any content; are made up of only one image/link; are strictly personal);

5. we received two (or multiple) copies of.


At the same time, we reserve the right to edit texts when they contain:

i. broken links;

ii. diacritics, grammatical or translation errors, and format problems

which we can fix.

By contrast to corporate media, we want to keep the editorial process as transparent as possible and also to publicly assume responsibility for our editorial decisions. For this reason, the rejected messages will be transfered to a separate publicly-accessible page called "trash can" accompanied by a succinct explanation as well as the archive of the discussions by the editorial team regarding the choice to not include them on the open newswire.


All the material on the site can be reproduced and distributed freely, with the following exceptions as per our CopyLEFT policy:

1. no permission is given to modify the content or to alter the name of the author and original source as this goes against our desire for transparency;

2. no permission is given to reproduce this material for the purpose of making a profit, as this exploits our spirit of generosity;

3. no permission is given to reproduce this material in a context that violates the rights of individuals or groups by discriminating against them on the basis of nationality, ethnicity, gender or sexuality as this contradicts our essential commitment to equality.


It is possible that we will revise this editorial policy if problems related to the content of the open publishing newswire will make it necessary that we clarify or modify certain details.