Friends
Mr. Emanur Rahman is correct in saying that we love donkey since we are donkey's ourselves !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Had it been not true than how come since inception we could not make any change of our fate. Donkey's are there to carry load of others and feel proud to be an important animal as we are carrying the load of our friend to whom we are indebted for life.
A national gets the leadership it deserves so is the case with us the Mohan Bangladeshis.
Let us wait for many other OITIHASHIK EPISODES" like this to be presented by our beloved,worshipped,adored politics newly invented "digital politics".
Faruque Alamgir
I don't understand why everyone is so surprised by these actions. Bangladesh wants donkeys as leaders and duly elects them. Why complain when you don't like the sound of their braying?
We are committed to worshipping donkeys, wives of donkeys, daughters of donkeys....we've even had an ass as leader.
So much for the "dizital paablic"!
What I was personally disappointed by was that our world renowned computer scientist did not reveal to the BRTA how to shut Facebook down properly.
Oh well, Joy Bangla....
Emanur Rahman | m. +447734567561 | e. emanur@rahman.com
From: Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com>Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 15:51:24 +0600Subject: [ALOCHONA] First YouTube then Facebook and what's next?First YouTube then Facebook and what's next?
by Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury
May 30, 20
Bangladesh's present ruling party banned YouTube in 2009 for publishing the contents of the conversation tape of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina with some of the army officers inside Dhaka Cantonment right after the tragic massacre inside the headquarters of Bangladesh Riffles, where a large number of army officers were brutally murdered, while members of their families were humiliated and even tortured.
Hearing the news of availability of such conversation tape on YouTube, Bangladesh government immediately blocked this site for indefinite period. Later the ban was though withdrawn; the conversation tape is very much available on YouTube. The only difference is, by banning YouTube in 2009, actually Bangladeshi government gave an extensive publicity to the contents, for which it was blocked in Bangladesh, and later the tape content drew attention of millions of people around the world.
This time, Bangladesh's same government has banned extremely popular social networking site Facebook for indefinite period. There are two versions from official sources, justifying this ban.
One claims, it was blocked as someone posted obscene cartoon of the Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and leader of the opposition Begum Khaleda Zia. Another source claims that, the site is blocked because of high pressure from the Islamist groups in Bangladesh, which asked the government to immediately and indefinitely ban Facebook for publishing cartoons of the Prophet of Islam. Three Islamist political parties — Islami Oikya Jote [IOJ], Islami Andolan and Khelafat Andolan — on Friday [May 28, 2010] demanded an immediate ban on Facebook for a recent campaign by some users inviting people to draw images of the prophet. Earlier Pakistani government also banned Facebook at the demand of Islamist and militant religious extremist groups in that country.
Commenting on blocking Facebook, Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission sources said: "Some users of Facebook posted anti-Islamic content about Prophet Mohammed [SM], which the government took seriously. Some users even have posted sub-links to pornographic materials, which are not tolerable as well. For these reasons, Facebook has been blocked indefinitely. Access to Facebook may resume only when operators will find proper ways of blocking such anti-social and anti-religious contents."
Giving reactions to blocking of Facebook, a number of Islamist groups in Bangladesh has welcomed the steps and demanding continuation of this ban for indefinite period. While Islamist groups are raising voice against Facebook, on investigation it was found that even some of the notorious Islamist groups as well as suspected Islamist terror outfits are also maintaining their pages on Facebook. Islamic Democratic Party [former Harkat-Ul-Jihad] is having its page on Facebook.
I am not sure, if the government will gain anything by blocking Facebook, but surely it will bring bad reputation for the country as a whole for such violation of rights of expression. Freedom of expression and freedom of press is greatly undermined in Bangladesh during past few months. The latest attempt of the government in banning Facebook will just become another evidence of such situation. Those who advocated such idea, are in reality screwing the image of the present government in Bangladesh.
http://www.weeklyblitz.net/763/first-youtube-then-facebook-and-whats-next
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