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Controlling cyberspace
Though it wants to use the Internet to create a “Digital Bangladesh”, the AL government seems to fear the power of cyberspace and has been adopting too many policies to curb it. First there was the monitoring of social media including Facebook, and now the government plans to move to the next level and filter out “sensitive” content coming into the country across many websites and gateways.
Being exposed to a wide variety of information sources is the best way for people to sort through and decide on their own what is sensitive and what is not. This filter sounds like a national-level version of the parental controls that one can set up on a television to control content. The difference is that the people of Bangladesh are not children and should not be treated as such.
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