[governance] What happened?

[linda misek-falkoff]

Hi Bill, I do want a flyer.  Apologies if you have already sent it here but
could you please do so again either to me, or if everyone else has it, or to
the list? Or both  - as you may wish.

Warm regards, Linda.

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 4:46 AM, William Drake <
william.drake at graduateinstitute.ch> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> The ONI event was to publicize the book, "Access Controlled: The Shaping of
> Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace," edited by Ronald J. Deibert, John G.
> Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski and Jonathan Zittrain.  The book will be published
> in April 2010 as part of the series I co-edit for the MIT Press on The
> Information Revolution and Global Politics.  If anyone is interested in
> knowing more or pre-ordering, please see
> http://mitpress.mit.edu/IRGP-series.
>
> Curious thing just happened.  I had put out a stack of flyers about the
> book, as well as another in the series, on the table in the back of the room
> at the session I'm now speaking in on the IG summer school program.  I
> stepped out of the room for a moment, and coming back saw three Chinese
> people standing outside the room conferring.  Walked back into the room and
> someone had removed all the flyers from the table.  I have to presume they
> are going around the building doing this.
>
> There are also flyers at the IGP booth if anyone here here wants one.  At
> least there were, not sure about now.
>
> Best,
>
> Bill
>
>
>
> On Nov 16, 2009, at 11:11 AM, Shahzad Ahmad wrote:
>
>   Dear Colleagues,
>>
>> Just to keep the facts straight... the Network of the Soros Foundation or
>> Open Society Institute) has nothing to do with ONI Asia or this event. ONI
>> Asia is an independent network of researchers supported by Toronto
>> University and Harvard in the US.
>>
>> best wishes and regards
>> Shahzad
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Fouad Bajwa" <fouadbajwa at gmail.com>
>> To: <governance at lists.cpsr.org>; "Karl Auerbach" <karl at cavebear.com>
>> Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 2:05 PM
>> Subject: Re: [governance] What happened?
>>
>>
>> I am at the IGF and heard about this issue that during the ONI open
>> network initiative (of the network of the Soros Foundation/Open
>> Society Institute) workshop in the morning. The issue arose when the
>> meeting was disrupted by UN officials who demanded removal of a poster
>> that mentioned Internet firewalls in China.. Here is the post by the
>> Pakistani Civil Society at the IGF:
>>
>> IGF 2009 event rattled by UN Security Office
>> "If we cannot discuss topics about Internet censorship and
>> surveillance policy at a forum about Internet governance then what is
>> the point of something like the IGF," said Ron Deibert, director of
>> the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto's Munk Centre for
>> International Studies and one of ONI's principal investigators.
>> By Rabia Garib
>> 16 Nov 2009
>>
>> KARACHI, 15 NOVEMBER 2009 - An anti-censorship group holding an event
>> Sunday at the United Nations-sponsored Internet Governance Forum (IGF)
>> in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, was disrupted by UN officials who demanded
>> removal of a poster that mentioned Internet firewalls in China.
>>
>> According to a Pakistani delegate, Shahzad Ahmed of Bytesforall.net, a
>> reception hosted by Open Net Initiative (ONI) was rattled by IGF
>> security, who objected to a poster advertising "Access Controlled", a
>> book being introduced at the event. "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," Ahmed reported.
>>
>> The poster promoting ONI's forthcoming book, "Access Controlled" was
>> removed by the IGF's organizers because a sentence in the poster
>> apparently violated UN policy. The sentence in question reads, "The
>> first generation of Internet controls consisted largely of building
>> firewalls at key Internet gateways; China's famous "Great Firewall of
>> China" is one of the first national Internet filtering systems."
>>
>> "If we cannot discuss topics about Internet censorship and
>> surveillance policy at a forum about Internet governance then what is
>> the point of something like the IGF," said Ron Deibert, director of
>> the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto's Munk Centre for
>> International Studies and one of ONI's principal investigators.
>>
>> Deibert, one of the organizers of the reception, said he will file a
>> complaint against the censorship of the event and send it to the
>> United Nations Human Rights Commission.
>>
>> "We condemn this undemocratic act of censoring our event just because
>> someone is trying to impress or be in the good graces of the Chinese
>> government. It is ironic that while people are allowed to gather here
>> to discuss freedom of expression online, censorship and surveillance
>> practices on the Internet, we are being restricted in expressing our
>> views," said Al Alegre of the Foundation for Media Alternatives, a
>> member of the ONI Network.
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 4:11 AM, Karl Auerbach <karl at cavebear.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> News is just filtering out about the teardown of a book poster at the IGF
>>> because it violated some UN rule about China.
>>>
>>> We've seen videos of the teardown of the sign but there's not much news
>>> out
>>> here about the why except that it was done by UN security because a
>>> sentence
>>> violated some rule or another.
>>>
>>> Anyone have more details?
>>>
>>> --karl--
>>>
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>>
>> --
>> Regards.
>> --------------------------
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>> ICT4D & Internet Governance
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