Facebook Banned in Bangladesh

This is what the media has done always and continues to do! For whoever-wrote-this-article's information, BD has only ONCE blocked a website and 'does not have a history of blocking websites over various issues'! besides. Every person belonging to the recent generation including me, oppose this fact of banning a website but the media has been reporting negatively on our country! Please go learn something before you brainwash people!

The point to take home is that the net is not above censorship. It seems that ANY fourth rate government can just flip a switch and make any or all of it vanish. Presumably, one need not be a government to reach the switch. And presumably, a 3rd, 2nd or 1st rate government would be more subtle about it. The question is, is this a good thing? If freedom of speech and the press are rights, is it a permissible thing. And if it is not, is the proper approach to address it Political or Technological ? I am visualizing a net without wires. This would be a more robust system in that government would not be able to block it. Not without blocking everything else, including police and military communications.

Internet is full of good and bad things.its up to an individual to decide whether to see good or bad.nobody is forcing anyone to see a particular Prophet Muhammad's Caricatures,just like porn this should be left for individual to decide.there are many websites showing how to make bomb,and kill their own innocent people.have these countries banned those websites?no.then why make foolish attempts.how many websites they gonna ban?what if we see caricatures on millions of porn sites?

When u attack Black people, they call it RACISM. When u attack Jewish people, they call it ANTI-SEMETISM. When u attack women, they call it SEXISM. When u attack homosexuality,they call it INTOLERANCE. When u attack a Country, they call it TREASON. When u attack a religious sect, they call it HATE. But when they attack the Prophet Mohamed (PBUH), they call it FREEDOM OF SPEECH!! In the name of freedom of press west has indeed declare war against Islam. West considers them most civilized but unfortunately they are very in tolerant about Islam and always out to demean world’s most modern and scientific religion where there is no doubt or confusion. I think we should follow peaceful means to protest such malicious propaganda against Islam and our dearest Prophet Mohammad (Peace be upon Him) at the same time refrain ourselves from any violent activity which is against the teaching of Islam and our holy Quran.

Pornographic images on the Web of the nations' 2 favourite grannies is truely disgusting. The idiot who posted it may not be 'well in the head' and there are millions of pornographic images on the Web! Who cares? There's no real reason to stop millions of people in Bangladesh accessing their favourite social network: except lack of thought.. Techtree, there is no BTRA, it's BTRC- Bangladesh Telecom Regulatory Commission, do your homework next time.

Colombo, u are sick! Go get some help dude. U are missing da whole point here buddy. U better be locked in prison n u should also remember what happened ur country before u claim urself a civilised person

To the guy from 3rd world country -Colombo and with a very offensive name ( ID ) We know about the Sri Lankan people who live there life under a 1 dollar also know so many Monkey looking Sri Lankan people what type odd job they do in the USA

I must say of all the articles I have read about the facebook ban in Bangladesh, this one is the most authentic also statistically sound. Most of the people like Alex Khan from Jamaica(from my previous comment) thinks that facebook is temporarily banned from Bangladesh due to prophet incident but its not the entire reason. The ban was imposed mainly because of the unsolicited disturbing pictures uploaded by the rummy lad. Frankly from my point of view the entire idea is ridiculous.

er what happened to freespeech? Obviously the issue here is that users are unable to choose which facebooks pages to look at, or which videos to watch.... they are forced to view these offensive images by the companies involved ...so of course the government must get involved - otherwise the freedom of choice would also become a factor. Ya know there is a magic solution - its called don't visit the sites! I have never seen depictions of any other gods in a satirical manner - The Life of Brian was purely a comedy.....but wait maybe i am wrong and we should ban Japan from making televisions.

the ban is actually cos someone put up satirical pictures of the pm, sheikh hasina, and the official reason referencing caricatures of the prophet is merely eyewash...

All this copy & paste & "woosh" to the publish button, ain't it?