[governance] Bangladesh Govt blocks YouTube

[Faisal Hasan]

Dear all,

Bangladesh govt. blocks youTube from today in order to avoid impending
violence.  This is a serious concern for us who advocate that "content
filtering is not a solution rather it should be removed at the source." We
understand that this is an issue of "freedom of expression"  and due to the
corresponding legislation Google is not being able to remove it.

On behalf of the Internet Society Bangladesh Dhaka Chapter may I request
chapter delegates and people concerned with Internet governance issues to
think about ways how we can address this sort of issues in future. There
should be a global consensus about the content that fuels deadly violence
shouldn't be hosted by anybody, content that has been flagged by thousands
of people should be removed, content about which one third of the worlds
population has unequivocal objection can definitely set aside from other
contents.

I guess most of you will agree that this is a very sensitive issue and
Muslims around the world are deeply shocked by the violence thats being
erupting all over the world killing innocent lives as well as by the fact
that the content still stays at the source.

Kind Regards
Faisal Hasan, PhD
Chapter President
Internet Society Bangladesh Dhaka Chapter
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