Bangladesh joins Pakistan - both are blocking Facebook

Bangladesh has become the second nation to block Facebook, because the website is publishing caricatures of the prophet Muhammad.

Thoughts? Should every person in a country lose access to a website for any reason?

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Not USA, not my problem.

Though i don't like facebook, I don't think someone should block a website like facebook.

facebook is trash, just people posting useless updates that no one cares about

I honestly couldn't care if every country banned it, and twitter.

By that note shouldn't they just block the entire internet? How about just censoring any form of freedom of speech? seriously Bangladesh, Pakistan, GROW UP.

Should every person in a country lose access to a website for any reasontopsemag55

Wow.... I don't use Facebook myself, but don't you think that people in Bangladesh and Pakistan won't use it if they find it offensive....

Wow.... I don't use Facebook myself, but don't you think that people in Bangladesh and Pakistan won't use it if they find it offensive....

svenus97

[QUOTE="topsemag55"]Should every person in a country lose access to a website for any reasonBiancaDK

Has the Danish government ever blocked a website that you know of?

Muslims are massive crybabies.Good-Apollo

I now approve of Facebook :P..

[QUOTE="BiancaDK"][QUOTE="topsemag55"]Should every person in a country lose access to a website for any reasontopsemag55

Has the Danish government ever blocked a website that you know of?

[QUOTE="topsemag55"]

[QUOTE="BiancaDK"] No, not unless the majority of the people in the country collectively decide to allow the government to babysit the people living in the country.BiancaDK

Has the Danish government ever blocked a website that you know of?

yes I heard danish porn sites can get pretty wild UbiquitousAeon

[QUOTE="BiancaDK"][QUOTE="topsemag55"]

Has the Danish government ever blocked a website that you know of?

UbiquitousAeon

[QUOTE="topsemag55"]

[QUOTE="BiancaDK"] No, not unless the majority of the people in the country collectively decide to allow the government to babysit the people living in the country.BiancaDK

Has the Danish government ever blocked a website that you know of?

I don't recall (offhand) any websites blocked by the U.S.; however, the government has shut down websites before, such as phishing sites, market scams, and so on.

I don't recall (offhand) any websites blocked by the U.S.; however, the government has shut down websites before, such as phishing sites, market scams, and so on.

topsemag55

Don't care to be honest, people censor stuff all the time.

[QUOTE="topsemag55"]

I don't recall (offhand) any websites blocked by the U.S.; however, the government has shut down websites before, such as phishing sites, market scams, and so on.

BiancaDK

ISPs aren't going to shut down people who are throwing money at them.

ISPs aren't going to shut down people who are throwing money at them.

Espada12

facebook is trash anyway. i dont see whats so great about.

facebook is trash anyway. i dont see whats so great about.

T_REX305

Kinda' weird that the ISPs can't handle that themselves.BiancaDK

The ISPs block known phishing sites, but it's the government that steps in afterward to make arrests and do the actual shutdown.

facebook is trash anyway. i dont see whats so great about.

T_REX305

You know, kinda' how it made you feel good airing your opinion in this thread?

Yeah.

The ISPs block known phishing sites, but it's the government that steps in afterward to make arrests and do the actual shutdown.

topsemag55

[QUOTE="topsemag55"]

The ISPs block known phishing sites, but it's the government that steps in afterward to make arrests and do the actual shutdown.

BiancaDK

Just that as far I know the U.S. has never purposely blocked websites. They shut them down instead - kind of like a banhammer.:lol:

[QUOTE="Espada12"]

ISPs aren't going to shut down people who are throwing money at them.

BiancaDK

Oh, I was referring to those scam sites and such, they still have to pay for hosting :P, and it's probably due legal concerns why ISPs don't directly shut down people, they probably don't want to go through the trouble.

doesn't matter. both countries have WAY bigger issues to worry about.

People sure do like to get worked up over religion. It's kind of funny that I often see the excuse that they don't like drawings of Mohammed because they don't want to idolize him, and yet it seems like the real reason they all get worked up over these cartoons is that they DO idolize him already.

Of course, with politicians, you can never really be too sure if their convictions are genuine or if they are just trying to win over part of the populace. Wouldn't that be funny, if many of the political leaders that do this stuff actually weren't very religious, kind of like how in this country so many of the "family values" people end up being the ones who are hiring prostitutes and other crap like that?

It is sad that people are afraid and feel the need to censor information.