[governance] Bangladesh Govt blocks YouTube

[Daniel Kalchev]

On 18.09.12 17:59, Fahd A. Batayneh wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 11:34 PM, Daniel Kalchev <daniel at digsys.bg 
> <mailto:daniel at digsys.bg>> wrote:
>
>     (snip)
>
>     I believe Google are just trying to save their business. You can't
>     blame them about this stance.
>
>
> Saving their business must not be at the cost of any religion or 
> social norm. More, it must not be at the cost of mocking religious 
> figures who changed humanity with their message and beliefs.

Imagine, that daily Google offends the religious beliefs of people they 
have never, ever heard of. Also imagine, that the beliefs of those who 
rule Google will likely not match yours or mine.

We can claim anything we wish, but as long as we rely on Google for 
(whatever), we will be frustrated with their decisions, when they do not 
match ours.

In the end, it seems that Google indeed restricted access to that 
particular video in certain countries. This costs them business. Like 
any enterprise they need to balance their business interests.

> Would you accept anyone to "save their business" at the cost of 
> depriving you of something that is owned by you?

This happens all the day. Every day. I do not know about you, but I have 
learned to live with this reality and turn it the way I see fit. When 
someone tries to deprive me of something I believe is mine, I fight back 
-- one way or another.
But I also understand, that from time to time my decisions and actions 
might be considered the same way by someone else.

>     Imagine, you post something, that someone who doesn't agree with
>     you claims is offensive to them. Should Google remove it? Why?
>
>
> I would not wait for Google to remove, I will do it myself. Even 
> better, I would not get myself into such a position by posting content 
> that could offend someone.

Maybe I wasn't clear. You post something. It offends John Doe. He 
doesn't know about you. You don't know about him. He knows Google and 
posts there. You know Google, you see the posting and complain. Google 
won't intervene. If you are not convinced John Doe is right, would you 
remove your very own posting? Why?

>
>     I happen to live in a country, that was subject to mass extinction
>     for half a millennium because of that same religion.
>
>
> Do you mean the Persian empire? Or Andalus (Spain under the Arab rule)?

I live in Bulgaria. I know the most typical answer, "it was old times, 
barbarian tribes, nobody knows now etc, so a different religion". 
Noticeable part of this country's population still suffers. I have my 
opinion on this and do not insist it be accepted by everyone. I also 
have no problem with anyone's religion --- as long as they stay out of 
my door.
About history interpretation: I also lived trough the so called 
"communist regime" and the today's "democracy" -- this let me observe 
enough interpretations of history of all kinds -- most of them, pathetic 
at best.

None of this has anything to do with the situation at hand, however.

Daniel
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