[governance] Bangladesh Govt blocks YouTube

[Daniel Kalchev]

On 19.09.12 18:21, David Conrad wrote:
> My impression, looking at news reports on the background of how the 
> video became such an item of note, is that the creators/distributors 
> of the video knew what the implications of creating/releasing the 
> video would be and, in fact, were counting on the over-reaction in 
> order to put the Muslim world in a bad light. The instigators of the 
> rioting (TV personalities and politicians) and the people rioting 
> played directly into the desires of the video's creators/distributors. 

Good observation.

This reminds me of the time the "Eastern block failed". The quote are 
here, because this is not what happened in reality.
But, at the time it turned out there are large scientific units in the 
US and elsewhere that were working in the field of "behavioral sciences" 
-- that more or less had country-specific, community-specific and even 
religion-specific (not to say, history-related) studies, that suggested 
how the particular community may be manipulated to react to an otherwise 
innocent provocation. Including appropriate wording...

It all worked amazingly well in some societies and failed in some 
others. Most people, who were subject to that.. "scientific experiment", 
didn't even realize it actually happened.

The question still remains. Who ordered this? I have the probably 
unpopular suspicion that it was those regimes that didn't like much the 
Arab spring outcome. What better way to suppress freedom voices, than to 
create an (religious in this case) enemy and ask everyone to be united...

Daniel

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