Nirvanix Watch

Newsvine: Our Purpose is Not News

Autor tombassett

Recently, I did some research and posted a few articles about the Mediamax/Nirvanix/Streamload ripoff of their customers, and proving that they’re basically the same company (though they claim otherwise.)

Nirvanix/Streamload/Mediamax complained to Newsvine about this, who promptly deleted the offending articles. I of course wrote to Newsvine to ask about this. They said:

We have reviewed the articles you reference as having been taken
down. In such cases, Newsvine only restores content deemed to be
clearly appropriate for our readers and within the terms set out by
our User Agreement.

Thus far, we have been contacted by both you and the company that is
the subject of your writings. Since we have no way to determine
which party’s claims are legitimate, and Newsvine is not in the
business of arbitrating such disputes, we recommend that you (and the
company you wrote the articles about) take your dispute elsewhere.

Of course, you are still welcome to use Newsvine for its intended
purposes.

First of all, this just proves that if you want Newsvine to remove any article, hey - just ask! But secondly, they say “you are still welcome to use Newsvine for its intended purposes”.

I thought the purpose of Newsvine was to report NEWS. I wrote some news about a serious problem that has been experienced by TENS OF THOUSANDS of MediaMax/Streamload/Nirvanix users. I also wrote an article containing original research proving that MediaMax and Nirvanix are the same company.

This is news - this is what news IS.

But - those aren’t, I guess, the “intended purposes”. So now we know that NEWS is not the intended purpose of Newvine. What is the other possible purpose? I would say DISCUSSING NEWS - but that’s not it, either. You see, some of the people who came to Newsvine to comment on my article signed up JUST for that purpose - and the article, including their comments (none of which were in disagreement with my article) were deleted.

So, now that we know that news, and the discussion of thereof, is NOT the purpose of Newsvine - what is? (Besides bending over whenever ordered to do so at the slightest suggestion of anyone who doesn’t like any of their articles…)