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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: 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.