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The Project to Create a Radical, co-op (member-owned), free speech, social networking website which would be better than myspace, youtube, livejournal, match.com and indymedia... combined.
If you have resources which you would like people to know about that you think might interest people who are interested in the free of kings project, please click here and post it to our free photo-classified section.
To contact us, please send an email to the below email address:
freeofkings [at-symbol] freeofkings.org
Many of the largest social networking websites are owned by right-wing groups, multinational corporations, or a small clique of volunteers which puts censorship into the hands of a few power-tripping individuals. Myspace.com (owned by Fox news, an extremist right-wing, war-promoting multinational media corporation), Youtube.com, (multinational corporate, owned by Google), Livejournal.com, (corporate owned), Match.com, (charges over $25.00 per month) and Indymedia.org (run by a few volunteer individuals). For further references of the problems with indymedia please see the widely published article by Jennifer Whitey: “What's the Matter with Indymedia?” “Conceived initially to allow everybody to 'be the media,' Indymedia is plagued by everything from fascist messages to paralyzing ideology to good old fashioned laziness.” – Jennifer Whitey The entire, very detailed article was printed in Lip, an activist Magazine, Alternative Press Review Magazine, and many other publications and Indymedia branches. Online edition (with detailed responses from Indymedia) available here: www.alternet.org/story/23741 Many of these social networking websites also are using people who sign up for their services like a tool because they use oppressive corporate advertisements to fund their ‘free’ services. Many of these websites also are censoring activists and deleting the accounts or news articles of activists simply because they are in positions of power. Social networking websites are a form of media which continues to expand, yet multinational corporations are trying place themselves in the positions of Kings of such a valuable media resource. Only in a dictatorship, or a monarchy run by a King, are such powerful media resources controlled by so few people. If such resources were not-for-profit and opensource people could free themselves of these self-empowered Kings.
Why is this International Conference called Free of Kings?
This conference was named after the Free of Kings project. To learn more about the Free of Kings project please click here.
The Mission of this Conference is:
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As many long-term activists know, a project of such size and scale often becomes lost in a dreamworld.... and never actually becomes a reality. Nevertheless, we are hoping to move from the talking stage to the reality stage by taking several goal-orientated steps. Perhaps, as it often is with most projects which become a reality, there is a need to sit down face-to-face to discuss the fine points of it with people from all over the world and to put into place the co-op structure... and then to begin a rough-draft or beta version of the project at the end of those discussions.
Please join us at our Conference in May and at our Film Festival in October. It is free of charge:
To learn more about the conference, which has free admission,
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