[governance] Re: Censorship of postcards at the IGF

[Cheryl Langdon-Orr]

FYI... see what I mean... .. We need to be 'on record in our own files at
least'
On Nov 6, 2012 8:39 PM, "Monika Ermert" <m.ermert at gmx.de> wrote:

>  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>
>  *Subject: **Re: Censorship of postcards at the IGF*
>  *Date: *6 November 2012 9:56:06 AM GMT+04:00
>  *To: *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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