National riots over the country's war-crimes trials resulted in the deaths of 56 people between 19 January 2013 and 2 March 2013. Extremists in the country had murdered eight secularists, including atheist blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider, who was fatally stabbed in February 2013. Right-wing political parties and groups in Bangladesh protested against bloggers and others they had considered 'blasphemous' at the time of the proposal. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina (in office from 2009) proposed the establishment of an Internet monitoring committee with the help of Bangladesh's intelligence services. The Awami League-led government of Bangladesh announced a countrywide ban on Facebook and other social-network websites.
“What content should be distributed and what should be blocked? Who should decide these policies and make enforcement decisions?” Censorship by country Austria īangladesh (like Iran, China and North Korea) had banned Facebook before - the Bangladeshi ban operated for a short period of time. “What should be the limits to what people can express?” he asked. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's CEO and majority shareholder, published a memo on censorship. Online censorship by Facebook of algorithmic forms raises concerns including the surveillance of all instant communications and the use of machine learning systems with the potential for errors and biases.
