The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) has made a right mess of the opening day of its meeting in Egypt.
Already under fire for holding the forum in Egypt, which banged up a blogger for four years, the group also made a truly ham-fisted attempt to censor debate at the meeting.
A security guard was told to remove a poster created by the OpenNet Initiative which included the incendiary line: "China's famous 'Great Firewall of China' is one of the first national Internet filtering systems."
The risk of this outrageous piece of entirely unstartling information upsetting a Chinese delegate was presumably behind the move.
Unfortunately the incident was filmed and later put on YouTube.
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