After Nepal and India, porn sites are now also being blocked in Bangladesh. The country’s highest court has ordered the authorities to block access to all porn sites for six months.
After extensive censorship measures against online pornography in Nepal and India in recent months, Bangladesh is now following suit. The country’s 165 million inhabitants will no longer have access to porn sites in the next six months.
Bangladesh’s highest court, chaired by judges Moyeenul Islam Chowdhury and Md Ashraful Kamal, has ordered the country’s regulatory authorities and government agencies to block access to pornographic websites for six months. The direct neighbors India and Nepal have already taken this step to varying degrees. If the censorship measures in China, North Korea and the Islamic states are added, half the world’s population will soon be behind massive porn filters.
The court in Bangladesh also calls on the executive branch to examine whether erotic content should not be permanently and universally blocked. A study allegedly showed that 77% of students in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka are addicted to porn.
The demonization of pornography, which is alternately blamed for public health crises, cases of rape and, as in the case of Bangladesh, for a rampant crisis of an alleged addiction to pornography, is thus taking on ever more alarming proportions. Censorship is in principle much easier to enforce if the state can take action against its citizens and media companies on the pretext of combating allegedly obscene content.
It also destroys the enlightening, health-promoting and socially positive aspect of pornography and thus promotes restrictive, regressive attitudes and views towards women and society as a whole.
You can also read about the censorship efforts in India and Nepal, about China’s aggressive policies against webcam providers and simple ASMR videos, as well as about the legislative projects against free sexuality in the USA and Great Britain. A global trend can thus be observed, which massively endangers the sex-positive achievements of the last decades.