[WSIS CS-Plenary] censorship at the WSIS

[Armin Murmann - IES-HETS - Genève]

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 :
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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
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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
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Conclusion :

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


Armin Murmann


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