UN statement on the censorship incident at IGF09 (clips 1 of 3)

United Nations (UN) Press Conference addressing the OpenNet Initiative Poster Censorship Incident at Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2009 at Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.

Note:
- typo: sorry for typo of the footnote title in the beginning of this clips, since it must be written "(clips 1 of 3)".


Please refer to this clip:
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-kxYt2LwKc
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD8n0Ay0jhM
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCPXJVIJPC0

Additional information:
- Please read official press release by OpenNet Asia at http://www.slideshare.net/donnybu/12-oni-asia-press-release
- Some Facts about the Incident at the IGF Egypt at http://deibert.citizenlab.org/blog/_archives/2009/11/16/4382066.html
- FAQ: What Happened at the Internet Governance Forum? at http://opennet.net/faq-what-happened-internet-governance-forum

- Video taken by Donny B.U. of Center for New Media and Policy Studies (ICT Watch) - Indonesia, member of OpenNet Asia Initiative.

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• igf09
• censorship
• china
• oni
• asia
• oniasia
• freedom
• expression
• openness
• egypt

[jjjooommm222]

China is hilarious. Nobody would know about this, but they made a stink about this non-issue (boo hoo we don't like their flyer), and now they've got pressconferences and massive publicity about their attacks on this group's flyer.

Streisand effect anyone? I guess they forgot that their attacks on any factual or opinionated expression outside the official Party-declared truth doesn't work the same when you don't own the media and can't jail everyone who disagrees with you. Too bad for China.