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Bangladesh Extends Social Media Ban, Blocking Twitter and Skype (thestack.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A month after temporarily blocking social media sites including Facebook and WhatsApp, the Bangladeshi government has now taken steps to take down online chat software Skype and social networking service Twitter. The decision came after a supreme court ruling which sentenced two opposition leaders to death, having found them guilty of crimes committed in the 1971 war of independence from Pakistan. The ruling rejected petitions to review the war criminals' death sentences. It divided the country, with many strongly protesting the decision. The social media ban is seen as a way to control any attempt at mass mobilization among dissidents.
that comment section is sort of risky.
I did not speak out for the social media networks because I didn't like social media networks....
What exactly makes you think they'll stop there?
And nothing, repeat NOTHING of value was lost. Except, you know, freedom to do as you choose.
Pick up that can, citizen.
This. People are asking for this by putting all their eggs in just a few, easy to censor, baskets.
I realize the word 'media' has many definitions but, for the sake of clarity, I'd suggest we just drop the word media. It's social. Social media implies it's news done by a group and that might be a possibility but, as evidence has shown us, that's not the actual results.
It's the washer-room for modern women and the pot-belly stove for modern men. It's gossip and group-think. It's peer-pressure and conformity. It's your own created echo-chamber, a mental prison of your own choosing. I have been there and I have read quite a bit of content. No, I do not have an account and never have.
It's as social as Slashdot only I probably get more valid news from the comments here than anywhere else. I don't even *have* to give up a bunch of personal information, allow cross-site tracking, or even use a real name. Sure, I'm me and some of us know who I am. Yes, I've been pretty open with who I am. Yes, I elect to do so.
So, I guess, it's really not media so much as it's news media (as seems to be the implication by many) but it is social. Hell, I get more news here, even in the comments, than I suspect *most* people get on Facebook. Well, more valuable news to me, personally. Simply call it a social website and stop pretending that it's valid, vetted, or valuable media when that's only a fraction of a percent of the content.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
No, you're not even *remotely* Libertarian - not even close to "pretty libertarian." I strongly suspect you aren't even remotely aware of the actual political ideology known as Libertarianism.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
In that case, better ban cars too. And shoes. And machetes. Anything to make it harder for someone to chop up someone else, right?
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
Wow. Just.... wow.
The article, and the links you provide discuss the fundamentalist Islamic nutjobs who hack bloggers to death. Did it occur to you for even a moment that the bloggers are being killed because they were the ones among the most vocal about keeping the Bangladesh traditions of secularism in government? Did it further occur to you that distribution of the ideas of those bloggers is heavily aided by social media?
So in order to suppress the nutjobs, you propose to suppress those in opposition to the nutjobs.
Who do you think wins in this equation?
You have a wonderfully apt moniker.
"But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it,..." - Nancy Pelosi