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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.
Roosevelt's compromise to have ALL the countries in the United Nations wrecked it from day 1. The only way you can have a real UN is to have a league of democracies. The only way we would have a genuine and meaningful UN would be to have something like an EU + USA + Canada + Australia, and leave Asia and Africa out of it.
This is my sig.
Why didn't the folks promoting the book just stand it up again, I wonder?
Let me guess, you voted for Obama, right ?
Huh?
Did you use Babelfish to translate that from Swahili?
You must be listening to one of those entertainment\pretend news stations like FOX news. Or even worse it sounds like you may have been brainwashed by pill popping Limbaugh.
Everyone knows that FOX news and Rush Limbaugh are to be compared with the National inquirer when it comes to news.
The UN denies that China exists?
ROC
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power lost.
Why do you think it's interesting to make up nonsense? The "new American ideology"? What planet are you on? Do you think that anything you pull out of your rear is worth posting on the Internet?
You can't spell unethical without UN.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." ~Thomas Jefferson
in communist china sign removes you!
Precisely. Calling barbarians barbarians is racist now. Rights are human rights, not subject to "cultural norms," and we are perfectly justified imposing those rights on the ignorant--by force, if necessary.