The BBC reports on how the United Nations removed a poster promoting a book on Internet censorship by the University of Toronto's Open Net Initiative at the Internet Governance Forum currently underway in Egypt.
U.N. Censors Internet Censorship Poster At IGF
November 16, 2009
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…the irony just writes itself…
States have a common enemy: YOU.
States have a common enemy: YOU. UN is a club of dictators, and is NOT about general population, and their objective is to figure out the best way of screwing you out, whether you are in the US or in Iran. I do not have any illusions about the UN and you should not either.