[governance] Re: [Chapter-delegates] Bangladesh Govt blocks YouTube

Mon Sep 17 18:22:13 EDT 2012

The reality is that both these Governments and Google are struggling with
answering what is a very "Sensitive issue".

For Google, they would have to consider the ramifications of when it is
acceptable to take down a certain content from a policy perspective. For
eg. they can view their role as  a "neutral service provider" which means
they merely host content and they are not political, religious etc. Their
challenge (or difficulty) would be determining whether removing this
content off You Tube would create a precedent for others who could say that
they or their communities were enraged at "various types of content",
making this a "policy and enforcement" nightmare.

For Governments, they have numerous duties to the people depending on their
various Constitutions and one of this roles is to ensure that there is some
acceptable levels of "peace and order". Anything threatening national
security, public morality is something that they are generally mandated to
watch out for.

Then there are those who may be suffering from the impact and effect of
both the decisions. There there is us, spectators. It makes me think about
the potential that various civil society groups in these areas to generate
discussions, dialogue and debate about this "conflict" and discuss
holistically.

What should the solution be?

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Carlos Vera Quintana <cveraq at gmail.com>wrote:

> I totally agree with this position. For less google block or delete
> content and in this situation they can not wait for more blod and violence
>
> Carlos Vera
>
> Enviado desde mi iPhone
>
> El 17/09/2012, a las 15:19, Faisal Hasan <hasansf at gmail.com> escribió:
>
> > 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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