[governance] Bangladesh Govt blocks YouTube

[Joy Liddicoat]

FYI sharing this statement from Bytes For All in Pakistan: 

http://content.bytesforall.pk/node/69


Joy Liddicoat
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On 18/09/2012, at 4:55 PM, Norbert Klein <nhklein at gmx.net> wrote:

> On 9/18/2012 8:14 PM, Matthias Pfeifer Freshmail wrote:
>> Hello Fahd.
>>  
>> Can you please go deeper in that translation issue? This would be very interesting i guess.
>>  
>> Thank you.
>>  
>> Matthias.
> 
> My example is not strictly similar, but also an uproar created by a translation.
> 
> Some years ago I translated a newspaper article into English in     October, which was originally published in Khmer in August. It was a fairly precise description of an alleged case of accepting bribes by a higher level official.
> 
> I was called to court several times and it took quite some explanation and effort to get me off the hook. What had happened?
> 
> When the article was published in a newspaper in Khmer, nobody cared, because accusations of corruption were made frequently - and there was a widely held opinion that corruption - payments under the     table - are common, and nobody can do much about it anyway.
> 
> But after my English translation was published, one of the local foreign embassies wanted to know what was going on - and only then the "accused" thought it was time to do some explaining: first of all that I should withdraw what I had published. But it was only a translation...
> 
> That may mean - for this stupid film - as long as it was in English, it did not catch much attention. But after there was a translated Arab language version, some more people saw what it was - and many others who had not seen it followed those who had seen it in their own language.
> 
>  
> Norbert Klein
> nhklein at gmx.net
> http://www.thinking21.org
> Phnom Penh/Cambodia
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