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Bangladesh Blocks Facebook Over Muhammad Cartoons

Posted by kdawson on from the try-syndication dept.

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?

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  1. Response to the ban in Bangladesh by Orome · · Score: 5, Informative

    What is nice to see is that there has been a protest against the ban by students and professors

    http://bdnews24.com/details.php?id=162813&cid=2

    Unfortunately, this probably doesn't make for as exciting news as yet-another-theocracy-bans-facebook. A search on Google News for "bangladesh facebook" doesn't even throw up this link, and I haven't yet seen any mention of these sensible, logical voices on BBC,CNN etc.

  2. Re:Here's a better idea by Wyatt+Earp · · Score: 5, Informative

    There have only been three racial lynchings in the US since 1968 and what, one gay lynching?

    So really don't expect a lynching in the US ever.

    Lynchings are more common in the Palestinian Authority with hate crimes on homosexuals and "collaborators" than Israel. In Jerusalem the danger is rock throwing groups for violators of the sabbath.

  3. Re:that would doom an entire people to ignorance by PopeRatzo · · Score: 5, Informative

    Nice try at the package-dealing there, but "global warming" is a religion, too.

    Considering last year was the warmest year since temperatures have been recorded, I'd say that if "global warming" is a religion, then it has a better record of prophecy than any other major religion on Earth.

    --
    You are welcome on my lawn.
  4. Re:Here's a better idea by css-hack · · Score: 5, Informative

    Indeed. They both stem from the Greek "pathos", which means, roughly, emotional suffering in response to something.

    So... I guess I don't see your point.