[governance] Bangladesh Govt blocks YouTube

[Ian Peter]

In this context people might find this article by Tim Wu interesting in that
it outlines some of the current Google/You Tube principles and suggests
improvements based on a Wikipedia style model

http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/107404/when-censorship-makes-sense-how-youtube
-should-police-hate-speech#

Ian Peter





From: Chaitanya Dhareshwar <chaitanyabd at gmail.com>
Reply-To: <governance at lists.igcaucus.org>, Chaitanya Dhareshwar
<chaitanyabd at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:29:58 +0530
To: <governance at lists.igcaucus.org>, "Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro"
<salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com>
Cc: Tapani Tarvainen <tapani.tarvainen at effi.org>
Subject: Re: [governance] Bangladesh Govt blocks YouTube

I think we all agree
 
1. Freedom of speech is important
2. What is said must be carefully said - if it's likely to hurt the
sentiments of the masses ("perceived compliance") something should be done
to prevent that hurt sentiment - strongest being censorship (but what other
measures could be used? - as Riaz said  'Reasonable' measures)
3. Service providers like youtube (google) that have a large reach and huge
client base should consider possible methods to prevent hate/racist/etc
messages (measures werent mentioned - we could work on this)
4. Governments need to know there are measures (point 2 & 3) that can be
used without opting for censorship - as Faisal said we need to do our part
on this or Governments will probably opt for blanket censorship
5. Violence and censorship are not viable solutions - the damage is just too
great
 
-C

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro
<salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Tapani Tarvainen <tapani.tarvainen at effi.org>
> wrote:
>> On Sep 19 16:26, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro
>> (salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com) wrote:
>> 
>>>> > > I thought the topic was a possible caucus statement on the censorship
>>>> > > of youtube, and I've tried to stick to that.
>>>> > > And if it hasn't become clear yet, I would support a statement
>>>> > > condemning violence but not one demanding censorship.
>> 
>>> > @ Tapani there was never any discussion on demanding censorship
>> 
>> I must have misunderstood some messages, then.
>> My apologies for all concerned.
> 
> We are all advocates of an open and free internet at least I think we are.
> Developing a statement will help to give us an opportunity to craft messages
> about our position in the midst of the turmoil. How we wordsmith would be
> collaborative but first it has to resonate within the IGC. If the general
> consensus is not to develop a statement, then we won't.
>> 
>> --
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