[governance] Bangladesh Govt blocks YouTube

[Fahd A. Batayneh]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 12:36 AM, Daniel Kalchev <daniel at digsys.bg> wrote:

>
> (snip)
>
> 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.
>

I agree. But let us not forget that some religions are known to everyone
worldwide. Islam, Christianity, Jewish, Buddhism are some of the very well
known religions regardless of who follows what religion. When web content
tend to abuse a certain religion/nation/region/..., there must be a policy
in-hand to re-stabilize things. If the Youtube video was brought down in
the first place, we might have not had this discussion in the first place
since there would have nothing to discuss.


> 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.
>

+1


> In the end, it seems that Google indeed restricted access to that
> particular video in certain countries.
>

Yes, upon their request.


> This costs them business. Like any enterprise they need to balance their
> business interests.
>

While I agree this is how the business world runs, it should not be at the
cost of citizens raging over insulting content. But this - I admit - is the
perfect world we all seek for.


> 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?
>

Well, the discussion was about a well known religion, while I agree that
John Doe is someone I do not know. These are two different issues IMO.

Thus, I would NEVER post anything that could rage followers of a religion
or a certain community, and if I did that unintentionally, I would
definitely remove it.

As for John Doe... I have never created my own video, so I really do not
know what my answer would be. If I was in the business of creating videos
of hilarious nature, I might have had my thinking in a different direction
:-)

I live in Bulgaria.
>

Of course you do, we are on the Root LGR VIP Working Group :-)


> I know the most typical answer, "it was old times, barbarian tribes,
> nobody knows now etc, so a different religion".
>

Not exactly. As I stated in my earlier e-mail, historians can interpret
history from the way they see things. Look at the Youtube video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtqJhvSydMU&feature=related for a different
view that insults no one.

Fahd
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