UN Censors Internet In Its NY Headquarters, Blocking Media Critique and Non-Google Video Sites
UNITED NATIONS, April 10 — The UN’s computer system censors a number of websites, among them the Chinese anti-cnn.com site devoted to searching for what it calls media bias. Also censored is the site dailymotion.com, which after liveleaks.com took it down was a remaining site hosting the controversial film “Fitna,” which the UN’s Ban Ki-moon denounced. In each case, attempts from inside the UN, by staff or in the library, to read either site results in a message from the “ICT Security Unit” that “you have been redirected to this page because the site you are attempting to access is blocked according to the policy as detailed in ST/SGB/2004/15.”
This Secretary-General’s Bulletin allows staff “limited personal use of ICT resources” unless these involve “pornography or engaging in gambling” or would “compromise the interests or the reputation of the Organization.”