[governance] Re: Censorship of postcards at the IGF

[Monika Ermert]

Hi,

i will  bring it up at the press conference possibly together with 
another case i learned of today from some local people that obviously 
were prevented from distributing material. I got some rough information 
from a Swedish TV team that is about doing a documentary and tried to 
help. Still trying to get details and a contact.

Best,

Monika

Am 06.11.2012 07:39, schrieb Jeremy Malcolm:
> So here is the official line.  Questions that this opens up:
>
> 1. If the issue was with "random placement" of the postcards, it 
> should be fine to distribute the postcards from any booth that is 
> willing to host them within the IGF Village.  So, can we test that 
> hypothesis?  Donny, can you try that and see what happens?
>
> 2. One of the postcards had a specific reference to a country?  There 
> is none that I could see, but maybe it is on the reverse side?
>
> 3. Like last time, the official rationalisation seems to differ from 
> what the individual concerned was told at the time.  This in itself is 
> a problem - they are making up the rules as they go along.
>
> I have edited the document on the pad at 
> http://igcaucus.org:9001/p/un-censorship-statement.  I think we have 
> enough information now to finalise the statement soon and start 
> gathering support and disseminating it.
>
> Do we have any press contacts on this list who could attend the IGF 
> official press conference and raise this matter?
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> *From: *Chengetai Masango <CMASANGO at unog.ch <mailto:CMASANGO at unog.ch>>
>> *Subject: **Re: Censorship of postcards at the IGF*
>> *Date: *6 November 2012 9:56:06 AM GMT+04:00
>> *To: *jeremy at ciroap.org <mailto:jeremy at ciroap.org>
>>
>> Hi Jeremy,
>>
>> The main thing about the postcards is that we discourage the random 
>> placement of literature across the IGF venue. We have designated 
>> places where people or organisations can deposit their materials for 
>> distribution or pick up by interested individuals.
>>
>> Of the two post cards that I saw, there was no problem with one but 
>> the other had a specific reference to a country, as you know there is 
>> a standard  UN policy of not  singling out specific entities or 
>> people but rather to address the issue. (We hold that it is unfair to 
>> single out one entity if the issue is not endemic to that particular 
>> entity). A perfunctory check is done to make sure that this is not 
>> the case. This is done in an effort to enable free, open and 
>> respectful discussion, (which in my view is essential in the IGF).
>>
>> One of the UN staff had a polite talk with the gentleman distributing 
>> the postcards and he seemed to understand.
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Chengetai
>
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