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

We’ve got three operating systems, three giant cloud providers, and a near monoculture of browser engines. It’s not great, even if it could be worse.

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

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A friend of mine who works in a startup in Bangladesh tells me that critical infrastructure is being set on fire indiscriminately. Buildings such as data centers. He shared videos of many such burning buildings. The country doesn’t yet have resilient infrastructure. For example, internet and telecommunication go through a single point of failure. Last year, that building was accidentally set on fire and it led to 2 weeks of poor internet for everyone.

Bangladesh as such has a severe lack of capital, and rebuilding all this is costly.

Ideally protests should be peaceful. But along with protestors, we tend to unleash anarchists who just want to watch the world burn.

They also have rival political parties who clearly use this situation to their advantage.

All is not what it seems. Truth is whatever you believe.

I hope for a swift restoration of law and order, followed by productive dialogue. And for the love of god, let’s not condone setting things on fire. That will destroy innocent lives and what little financial security they have built.

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

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

Telecom providers of various kinds are responsive to governments so I'm not sure that it "isn't" centralized as far as the ability for bad people to do these things goes.

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

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This protest, which started peacefully is currently the consequence of absolute mishandling and mismanagement by the government that resulted in close to 100 being shot dead by the police.

The current protest is not about the quota system anymore. It is the result of the systematic breakdown of social and economic opportunities that stems from years of corruption and favouritism within every sect of the economy.

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