IGF- Muzzled by the United Nations
(Rebecca McKinnon)
The
Internet Governance Forum is winding down today in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. There have been a lot of very constructive conversations in workshops and panels over the past four days about how to advance security, privacy, child protection, AND human rights and free expression on the Internet. Unfortunately, the biggest headline coming out of the forum so far has been an incident on Sunday in which a poster promoting a book about censorship by the
Open Net Initiative was
removed by U.N. security. See reports by the
BBC, the
Associated Press, and the
ONI's FAQ on the incident. Also see a
YouTube video of the incident, and video of
IGF Chairman Markus Kummer explaining the incident.
Labels: Content_Regulation, Information_society_and_Internet_policy