[WSIS CS-Plenary] RE: [CRIS Info] censorship at the WSIS

[charles.geiger at itu.int]

Dear Mr. Murmann

It was very clear from the beginning that all messages had to be screened,
simply in order, among other, to avoid racist and xenophobe messages. The
screening was done by a team, which may sometimes (and in your case) have
been too strict. Another Message  BLOCHER  NO passed on the Jet d'eau (and
came into the newspapers in Geneva). 

More information on the screening is contained in the last bulletin from Mr.
Gees, see attachment.

Kind regards

Charles Geiger
Coordination
Executive Secretariat
World Summit on the Information Society
c/o ITU, Place des Nations
CH-1211 Geneva 20
Switzerland

  





-----Original Message-----
From: Armin Murmann - IES-HETS - Genève
[mailto:Armin.Murmann at ies.unige.ch]
Sent: vendredi, 12. décembre 2003 16:55
To: plenary at wsis-cs.org; mh at wacc.org.uk; crisinfo at comunica.org;
redaction at lecourrier.ch; woz at woz.ch
Subject: [CRIS Info] censorship at the WSIS




Hi all,

you may know the helloworldproject. For the WSIS summit a swiss artist got 
a lot of money (near half a millon swiss francs, partly form a governmental 
agency supporting cultural activities) to project with a huge laser e-mail 
messages on mountains (Rio), buildings (NYC, Bombay) or the famous Jet 
d'eau in Geneva.

This wednesday a raciste and xenophobe politician was elected into the 
swiss government, Mr. Blocher. I sent an e-mail saying <BLOCHER- worst
case>.

I got the following message back :
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 22:40:07 +0100 (CET)
From: do-not-reply at helloworldproject.com
Subject: HelloWorldProject
To: armin.murmann at ies.unige.ch
Message-id: <31150777.1071092407650.JavaMail.wwwrun at hw1>
MIME-version: 1.0
Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
X-Comment: This message was scanned against viruses by kilo.unige.ch.

Hello

Thank you for contributing to The Helloworld Project.
Your message is not in line with the Editorial Guidelines and could not be
projected nor archived.

Try again at http://helloworldproject.com
--------------------------------------------------------------------------


Conclusion :

a very nice censorship (with public money) in a very democratic country.


Armin Murmann


Institut d'études sociales
HES santé-social
rue Prévost-Martin 28
CH-1211 Genève 4

0041 22 322'1'408 (direct) ou 414
www.ies-geneve.ch 


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