[governance] Bangladesh Govt blocks YouTube

[Daniel Kalchev]

On 18.09.12 10:07, Imran Ahmed Shah 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.
> 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.
> India and Malaysia already has signed agreements with Google for the 
> removal of ‘offensive’ contents.

I see few problems with this position:

- As Tapani already outlined, responding to anything with violence 
should not be encouraged (not that it isn't happening all the time and 
will continue to happen until there are more than two human beings around).

- What offends one, might bring joy to others. There are many examples, 
including religion based.

- Removal of an registration, based on someone's desires is not any of 
TLD Registry's business. Dragging in registries in such debates is not 
productive. This has already been demonstrated number of times. The 
content will just move elsewhere. Registries deal with labels, not 
content. This is like asking the whatever agency to rename an street, 
because serious crime was committed on that address.

- It is absurd that an Government has to sign a contract with a private 
company (Google) to do mutual favors. This has never ended well for both 
sides...

It also occurs to me, that the various "religious" (*) norms were formed 
and flourished because it was possible to achieve certain level of 
isolation and encapsulation of the various groups. Internet broke all 
this, as there is practically no way to separate yourself from the rest 
of the Internet, except to disconnect.

Daniel

(*) It is always for the power grab and exploitation of others, 
unfortunately.
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