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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.