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Bangladesh Blocks Facebook Over Muhammad Cartoons
lbalbalba writes with a BBC story about Bangladesh following Pakistan in censoring Facebook. "Bangladesh has blocked access to Facebook after satirical images of the prophet Muhammad and the country's leaders were uploaded. One man has been arrested and charged with 'spreading malice and insulting the country's leaders' with the images. Officials said the ban was temporary and access to the site would be restored once the images were removed. It comes after Pakistan invoked a similar ban over 'blasphemous content.' ... Thousands of people joined anti-Facebook protests in Bangladesh on Friday demanding the site be blocked over the contest. A telecomm regulator there said, "Facebook will be re-opened once we erase the pages that contain the obnoxious images." And how do they propose to do that?
Either a billion people too immature to handle cartoons are kept off the Internet forever, or every Facebook server on the planet is vaporized in a hail of fast neutrons.
Call me cynical, but either way, the world ends up a better place.
But but but... I like to be able to contact my American and European friends you empathy lacking clod!
everything on the internet that does not agree with my religion removed from the internet.
Who will I start with...
I'll see your Constitution and raise you a Queen.
Wow for the first time ever the religious extremists in Pakistan and I completely agree - someone has simply got do delete Facebook.
They should start their own social networking site called Burkabook and be done with it.
I find your lack of faith.... disturbing!
"global warming" is a religion, too.
I pray to global warming so that my mommy and daddy dont get a divorce.
Calling them primitives would be too kind
can we call them integrals?
Similar to Apple's development strategy.
Google says: Information No results found for "lynchings due to religion".
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
Okay, enough with these sith-mocking lines and parodies ! I say we disconnect slashdot and youtube until they have been approved by a sith-master. Let's force-choke these blasphemous heathens out of our tubes.
The Wise adapts himself to the world. The Fool adapts the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the Fool.
Your "prophet" married a six year old and had sex with her when she was nine. Your "prophet" was a paedo.
There are more Starbucks in Philadelphia than all of Utah. I think that is pretty telling.
Now don't get me wrong, I don't actually go to starbucks, but the absense of starbucks somewhere is still a pretty strong indicator of primitisim to me.
"linux is just DOS with a UNIX like syntax" -- Galactic Dominator (944134)
Only 50? I find that shocking. It would mean that LGBTs are vastly underrepresented in cases of murder than the general population. I think we should all do our duty and go out and kill on LGBT person today, to help tip the scales back to average.
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
....aren't Jews not supposed to do any work, like, you know, picking up and throwing rocks, on the Sabbath?
Ah, but stoning is ok, because it falls under the category of "god's work".
If they're quite liberal, then they won't care about the posting of Mohammad on Facebook.
It would be good to get some of that perspective, lest /. falls into some sort of Muslim-hating trap...
Oh no! Not the Muslim-hating trap! For once the site falls into that trap it will permanently be... uh... what happens again?
You might want to cut back on your rhetoric.
Democrats or Republicans. They are both taking us to the same place and they are not afraid of us anymore.
"Somebody set up them the bomb. They have no chance to survive and will make their time!"
-Cats
I think we should all do our duty and go out and kill on LGBT person today, to help tip the scales back to average
Why is this modded funny?
The GP's link indicated that "more than 50 young people aged 30 and under were murdered violently by assailants who targeted them because they did not fit stereotypes for masculinity or femininity... [LGBT is] a unique vulnerability at the intersection of age, race, and gender nonconformity that makes a fatal assault exponentially more likely."
Parent post pretends that "only 50" LGBT people were murdered in the past 10 years. That's not at all what the link suggested. 50 people were targeted and murdered because of their identity. The parent post actually advocates (sarcastically*) targeting and murdering more LGBT people because "only 50" murders is not enough.
Whats funny about that?
* I assume the parent was just being extreme for the ironic humor. whatever. I'm not upset at the parent - I'm upset at the mods for affirmatively recommending the post as funny.
I don't know what the solution is
Education. Lots of it, at least two generations worth of education.
I grew up in middle east and a local joke goes like this,
A sheikh's driver brings his 18 year old son to his Shiekh
Driver: Can you get my son a good job.
Sheikh: Has he done some kind of formal education?
Driver: No, not really, actually he never went to school
Sheikh: Is he smart/talented
Driver: Yes he is very smart
Shiekh: Hmmmm.. that doesn't work out, cause if he wasn't smart, he would be perfect for the local mosque priest.
What happens if I don't cut back on my rhetoric.