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posted by CoolHand on Thursday May 14 2015, @12:16AM   Printer-friendly
from the remind-us-to-unpublish-our-blog-urls dept.

Ars reports on the most recent blogger death in Bangladesh:

Assailants with cleavers and machetes on Tuesday killed another blogger in Bangladesh, the third blogger in that country murdered in as many months, the Committee to Protect Journalists said. Another blogger killed in Bangladesh earlier this year used Facebook as his medium, the committee said.

The committee said that Ananta Bijoy Das, who wrote about science and railed against religious fundamentalism, was killed Tuesday by four masked men in the northeastern city of Sylhet in broad daylight.

The death of Das brings to at least 20 the number of writers murdered globally this year, according to CPJ statistics. Bangladesh is ranked 13th globally with at least 16 killed since 1992.

An American blogger (of Bangladeshi origin) was an earlier victim this year.

 
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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday May 14 2015, @12:23AM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Thursday May 14 2015, @12:23AM (#182720) Homepage Journal

    I am dead certain that predominant among the reasons I am unable to find paying work, is that I am so outspoken on the Internet.

    At least all I have to worry about, is that I don't have much money.

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @01:12AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @01:12AM (#182743)

    Modding the parent offtopic was just petty and stupid. The post was at least tangentially on topic. Somebody apparently has a grudge against the poster. Hunt the modder down, take his mod points away and slap his peepee. Asshole.

    • (Score: 0, Troll) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday May 14 2015, @01:26AM

      by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Thursday May 14 2015, @01:26AM (#182747) Homepage Journal

      ... and is the reason that every time someone writes a wikipedia article about me, it's marked for deletion, with the specious claim that I'm not notable enough for wikipedia, because I'm only well-known as kuro5hin.

      In reality, I was notable enough for wikipedia long before the best part of jimmy wales dripped down his mother's leg.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @02:24AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @02:24AM (#182766)

      > The post was at least tangentially on topic.

      It was yet another post by MDC about MDC. Just more first post noise.

  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @01:29AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @01:29AM (#182749)

    Good, Hans Reiser did nothing wrong. (Score:-1, Spam)

    Good.

    When someone opposed to marrying girl children is killed it is a good thing. When they are killed painfully it is better.

    Marry young girls.

    Kill feminists.

    Deuteronomy 22 28-29, hebrew

    +Other parts of deuteronomy.

    • (Score: 0, Offtopic) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday May 14 2015, @01:33AM

      by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Thursday May 14 2015, @01:33AM (#182752) Homepage Journal

      ... when no body had been found, and there were no witnesses.

      Yes I do know Reiser eventually led them to her body. At that point it would have been just to try him for murder, not before.

      To try someone for murder, without any evidence at all that the alleged victim is even dead, that is just wrong.

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      • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @01:39AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @01:39AM (#182754)

        She committed adultery against him.
        Deuteronomy calls for her to be killed.

        He did nothing wrong.

        • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday May 14 2015, @01:46AM

          by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Thursday May 14 2015, @01:46AM (#182756) Homepage Journal

          but I wiped it up afterward.

          What's your take?

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          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15 2015, @12:09AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15 2015, @12:09AM (#183180)

            Deuteronomy doesn't care.

            I'm not a wowser american christian.
            That thing your citing was a story about a guy that was supposed to fuck his dead brothers woman because the dead brother had no kids with her and someone needed to inherit his name.
            The brother didn't want to and thus "dissed" his dead brother.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @02:49AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @02:49AM (#182770)

    So why are you so outspoken on the internet under your real name and social security number?

    You might get just as much attention under a pseudonym, while protecting your ability to earn a living.

    • (Score: 2, Troll) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday May 14 2015, @04:27AM

      by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Thursday May 14 2015, @04:27AM (#182798) Homepage Journal

      because I stand behind my words.

      On the other hand - it sucks to be me.

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      • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday May 14 2015, @05:51PM

        by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday May 14 2015, @05:51PM (#183021) Journal

        because I stand behind my words.

        On the other hand - it sucks to be me.

         
        It sucks to be a person with an illness, or an abused minority, or even a Bangladeshi blogger.
         
        Dealing with the consequeces of voluntarily posting to the internet in the US does not meet the suckage bar.

    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @06:02AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @06:02AM (#182815)

      > So why are you so outspoken on the internet under your real name and social security number?

      Because he is a narcissist.

      > You might get just as much attention under a pseudonym, while protecting your ability to earn a living.

      Or... his postings don't really matter all that much other than to confirm what any interviewer already suspects.