[governance] Bangladesh Govt blocks YouTube

[Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Tapani Tarvainen <tapani.tarvainen at effi.org
> wrote:

> On Sep 18 00:07, Imran Ahmed Shah (ias_pk at yahoo.com) wrote:
>
> > Sala,
>
> > I am strongly agreed with you for the development of a statement,
> > however, that would elaborate the conflict and abuse of the FoE
> > Rights, and would ask for the immediate removal of such offensive
> > type of contents that violate religious norms, values, morality,
> > believe and ethics.
>
> I'm not sure I understand what you mean, but the core meaning of
> Freedom of Expression is the right to offend, and in particular to
> disparage and ridicule opinions and creeds of any kind, whether
> political, religious, moral, ethical, whatever.
> (Exceptions like libel apply to people, individuals, not
> creeds or opinions.)
>
> After all, speech that does not offend anyone does not need
> protection, does it.
>
> At the end of the day, it is up to people to decide whether a statement
under the current situation is warranted. However, we had issued a
Statement on Freedom of Expression generally during the UN Human Rights
Council Meeting on Freedom of Expression which was developed here on the
list.


> And if someone resorts to violence to counter non-violent
> speech or other expression, the blame falls squarely on
> the former. No matter what someone says, countering and
> trying to suppress it with violence is wrong, period.
>
> I would strongly disagree with any statement that would
> support anything like censorship under threat of violence.
>
> > International legislation (treaty) restrict the hosting and/or
> > distribution of such type of contents prohibiting blasphemy and if
> > the contents are not removed by the hosting company, the removal &
> > banning the entire website should be the responsibility of the
> > Registry.
>
> I hope there will never be such a treaty of any real force.
> That would be the end of not only of Freedom of Expression
> but of Freedom of Religion as well, for there is no way
> to define blasphemy without selecting a (small) set of
> religions that'd be specially protected.
> Indeed, central tenets of many religions are blasphemous to others.
>
> --
> Tapani Tarvainen
>
>
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