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Bangladesh imposes curfew after dozens killed in anti-government protests

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Re: Bangladesh imposes curfew after dozens killed in anti-government protests

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Post by mschuster91 »

snowpid wrote: post #19
bilbo0s wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Though I like your humbleness, there are more countries and visitors on HN from other countries than the USA and Bangladesh.

Well... the UKs Tories have been a corrupt shitshow for the last decade. Germany's President Steinmeier was involved in the Murat Kurnaz mess (an Afghani dude wrongly imprisoned in Guantanamo), the Chancellor in the Cum Ex tax-cheating scandal, and the opposition parties are taking lessons from Trump in rhetoric tactics. Italy's government is composed of a literal post-fascist party whose youth openly glorifies Mussolini, and then you got the legacy of Europe's most corrupt and creepy politician (Berlusconi).

No matter where you look, corruption and unpunished scandals galore in the West. And the general public doesn't care.

Re: Bangladesh imposes curfew after dozens killed in anti-government protests

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Post by arrowsmith »

chad1n wrote: post #12

I've talked with a guy from Bangladesh over the last 3 days and he said that he was at a party and he was about to be killed, so he stopped going and started filming how other students are being beaten by local police. The fact that the government blocked the internet is pretty sad and I wish that no more people die.

> he was at a party and he was about to be killed

I feel like your story is really missing some details.

Re: Bangladesh imposes curfew after dozens killed in anti-government protests

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Post by Rinzler89 »

bilbo0s wrote: post #7
esafak wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People who run a country into the ground are happy to maintain the status quo as long as they're getting their share? Who knew!?

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>I know here in the US, we can take one look at our own presidential candidates

Yeah, the US presidential candidates are either an old senile man and an old xenofobic liar, either not great options, but none of them have run the country into the ground no matter how shit they are. I mean Trump spews complete nonsense and Biden can barely string a coherent sentence together or remember what he said 30 seconds ago, let alone run a country and yet the US seems to be doing fine.

Part of me thinks that the US still functions so well no matter the president or political situation is that F500 actually run the US and the president is just for show.

Re: Bangladesh imposes curfew after dozens killed in anti-government protests

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Post by Rinzler89 »

mschuster91 wrote: post #21
snowpid wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Though I like your humbleness, there are more countries and visitors on HN from other countries than the USA and Bangladesh.

Well... the UKs Tories have been a corrupt shitshow for the last decade. Germany's President Steinmeier was involved in the Murat Kurnaz mess (an Afghani dude wrongly imprisoned in Guantanamo), the Chancellor in the Cum Ex tax-cheating scandal, and the opposition parties are taking lessons from Trump in rhetoric tactics. Italy's government is composed of a literal post-fascist party whose youth openly glorifies Musso…

>And the general public doesn't care.

The general public doesn't care about corruption if it doesn't affect them directly and if their basic needs are met. As long as the valuation of their housing keeps going up and so is their pension, they don't care what corrupt shit those in power are doing. It's the "fuck you I got mine" human mentality.

Re: Bangladesh imposes curfew after dozens killed in anti-government protests

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Post by TheRealPomax »

Rather than an outage, this is a national internet kill switch being used to deny the population access to information and the ability to organize.

Because the supreme court reinstated a law that reserves a whopping 30% of all government jobs to only people with family members who fought in a war 50 years ago. As anyone could have trivially predicted, that doesn't sit well with the entire generation that's currently in school and hoping to actually, you know, get a job in the next few years.

Re: Bangladesh imposes curfew after dozens killed in anti-government protests

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Post by elashri »

frabjoused wrote: post #25

If this can happen, can you imagine if the Internet was centralized?

Internet is quasi centralized already. An outage or intentional disruption by a couple of companies under US Jurisdiction can disrupt global internet. Yes you would still have some clustered connections here or there but most of internet infrastructure is almost centralized already.
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