Barrister Arafat Hosen Khan, Advocate, Bangladesh Supreme Court, has sent a legal notice to Ms. Sabhanaz Rashid Diya, Head of Public Policy, Facebook and YouTube, as well as several government bodies to take down and remove contents in online social and or digital media platforms infringing the sovereignty, integrity and security of the State.
Along with Sabhanaz Rashid Diya, legal notice was sent to Chairman, Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC); Director General, Digital Security Agency; Inspector General of Police (IGP), Bangladesh Police Headquarters.
The notice said, in recent past it has been observed that the Facebook and YouTube do not apply any supervisory mechanism or have control over its contents especially in Bangladesh, while a large number of fake news, contents, images, videos containing obscene and damaging the images of various political figures, intellectuals, tarnishing the image of Bangladesh as a nation, disclosing various sensitive issues relating to international policies, broadcasting misleading and twisted information through various Facebook users and YouTube subscribers inside and outside Bangladesh with an object to diminish the country’s image.
Further in order to tarnish Bangladesh’s image as a failed State towards the international community and to create turmoil within Bangladesh, a vested quarter both inside and outside Bangladesh are purportedly circulating propagandas, it added.
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