UN Officials Remove Poster Mentioning Chinese Firewall

At a UN-sponsored Internet Governance Forum in Egypt, anti-censorship group Open Net Initiative was startled by a demand from UN officials to remove a poster mentioning Chinese Net censorship. When ONI refused the request, security personnel arrived and took away the poster. The group was promoting a new book, Access Controlled, a survey of Internet censorship, filtering, and online surveillance. A witness said, "The poster was thrown on the floor and we were told to remove it because of the reference to China and Tibet. We refused, and security guards came and removed it. The incident was witnessed by many." Here is a video of the removal.

Comments

Re:Censorship depends on the country.

[mambodog]

Slashdot should wordfilter any occurrences of "Barrack Hussein Obama" to "I am an enormous flaming douchebag". Do you think you're clever to point out, at every opportunity, that Obama shares one of the most commonly used names on earth? Seriously, this is worse than tards who always write 'M$'. (Yes I'm aware of the irony of suggesting a wordfilter in a thread about censorship, but like on most sites that use wordfilters, we still know what you mean, its just nice to see your asshattery publicly shamed.)

Re:Afro-American Racism Against Whites and Asians

[Anonymous Coward]

If African-Americans were not racist, then at most 65% of them would have supported Obama. At that level of support, McCain would have won the presidential race.

Funny, because according to the exit polls, 88% of African Americans voted for Kerry in 2004. I guess he must be black too!

Or maybe African Americans just vote strongly in favor of the democratic party in every (recent) election.