Poor decision
I was really shocked to see on BBC that Bangladesh had banned YouTube for broadcasting certain things. I do understand that there is classified information which should not be published. Whoever had uploaded those things did not act like a good citizen. But, unfortunately, my concern was more about the way the government had tried to resolve the matter by banning YouTube in Bangladesh. Such action was not expected from the party that has promised to build a digital Bangladesh. I believe the situation could have been dealt with more efficiently. Before banning, did anyone from the government request YouTube to restrict viewing the news from Internet concerning our internal security? I believe they would have got a good response.
As the country is trying to go for the digital system, we definitely don't want our image in the outside world to be blurred.
We need skilled personnel with modern equipment to overcome cyber crime, cyber terrorism and hacking. Finally, we need to fight information technology by using the same weapon, not through outlawing anything.
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