Censorship of postcards at the IGF

[Tapani Tarvainen]

On Nov 06 14:17, Donny B.U. (dbu at donnybu.com) wrote:

> 1. random placement? i put on the on the public table and on the table of
> indonesian booth. yesterday, we were preparing indonesian booth. so because
> the table still empty, then we put some of the postcard at the table.
> because we dont want our booth look empty, since other booth already has
> content. so, we are not use the postcard for against indonesia government

Maybe it would help if someone contacted Indonesian official
representatives with the message that we'd like to help
Indonesia in this wonderful promotion of theirs and are
confused by UN's reaction to it, or something like that?

> because its indonesian booth, i believe the indonesian gov that
> have right to objection with the postcard, not the UN :)

Agreed. It can be seen as UN action against Indonesia.

> 2. reference country? i attached  what maybe the UN mean with that. it's a
> marketing buzzword, "dangerously beautiful".. please do googling, and you
> will find that word as promotion of indonesia by anyone.

Right you are.

> i dont want to argue furthermore with the UN officer, also because
> when he asked me not to distribute the postcards, around me are
> people from indonesian embassy including the ambasador and from the
> ict ministry. i have to respect them, as the formal delegation that
> will fight for the next igf.

Understood. But playing this right we might get them to pick up the
issue themselves, perhaps.

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Tapani Tarvainen