United Nations Censors Reception for Book

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The United Nations-sponsored Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, was disrupted by UN officials who demanded removal of a poster advertising the book Access Controlled about freedom of speech on the internet.

The sound quality of these videos is sub-par, but they were shot live in the real world.

     "If we cannot discuss topics about Internet 
     censorship and surveillance policy at a forum
     about Internet governance then what is the 
     point of something like the IGF," said Ron 
     Deibert, director of the Citizen Lab at the
     University of Toronto's Munk Centre for
     International Studies and one of Open Net
     Initiative (ONI)'s principal investigators.

More video available here (sorry, no embed):
http://www.youtube.com/user/fikratube#p/a/u/0/axMpYddEomc

      "Deibert, one of the organizers of the reception,
        said he will file a complaint against the
        censorship of the event and send it to the
       United Nations Human Rights Commission."


Computer World has the story here:


"An anti-censorship group holding an event Sunday at the United Nations-sponsored Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, was disrupted by UN officials who demanded removal of a poster that mentioned Internet firewalls in China."

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