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

Mon Sep 17 18:27:38 EDT 2012

In all fairness, Google has already considered the ramifications of
tampering with a "neutral" platform in order to remove content that it
deems inappropriate. It removes allegedly-copyright-infringing content from
autocomplete in the search engine and from Youtube without having to
legally do so under the DMCA.
They have already created the precedent. Now all they have ahead of them is
the slippery slope.
Ivar

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <
salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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