[governance] Bangladesh Govt blocks YouTube

[Norbert Bollow]

Chaitanya Dhareshwar <chaitanyabd at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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)

One measure which IMO is eminently reasonable and should be used more
is: Specific education on the issues related to media literacy and
influencing the future of humanity in the globalized world.

On one hand, such education is obviously lacking in Western countries.
In fact I think that a key aspect of what leads to the making of such
films is that the people who created it (and also their friends and
other people in their social circles who knew about the project and
could have influenced them to stop it, but didn't try to do that) had
too little understanding of what emotions this film would trigger, and
what this could potentially lead to. (I don't think that any of these
people would have desired to cause the quite predictably possible, huge
negative impact on the ability of their country's ability to safeguard
her interests and the interests of her citizens in relation to the
countries where excessive reactions are likely!)

On the other hand, an analogous but different lack of understanding
obviously also exists in the countries where the excessive and
even violent reactions are happening.

Greetings,
Norbert

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