Drishtipat Blog

you cannot gather and shout on the streets, you are not allowed to protest anything (ofcourse, other than a cartoon ), if you are a journalist then not given the chances to write or tell the news you so want to tell, you are not fool enough to sms ppl any msg you want to spread really fast, you know there are some people who had been arrested by the security forces with their computer hard drive, emails they have exchanged and all so you became really cautious even while chatting online with your NRB friends about not making any jokes ,which can hurt the ego of our deshpremik shenabahinee or the army backed govt. But you may have been thinking you still can go on doing all the blogging you want to do using the pseudo name. In this world you are free, free, free…

but suddenly last week daily nayadiganta published an article how they know the real names of the people covering themselves under the pseudo names. So a big brother is actually watching!!!still you thought, you are never very vocal even among friends so there is no chance that anyone will keep an eye on you

so here comes the treatment for each and everyone of you. Now BTRC orders ISPs to reveal admin password, user data , usage pattern, IP address and so many other things (i even don’t know we need so many things to use the net) of each and every individual to track, monitor and record their activities. They are not willing to give any reasons after all it’s the country they own and they rule so who can question if they decide to read even your personal emails for the sake of ensuring ’security’

But can they do it? No. as far as you can remember, the constitution is not yet suspended or scrapped in bangladesh. And that is supposed to be the supreme law of the country.According to Article 43 every citizen shall have the right to be secured in his home against entry, search and seizure, and to the privacy of his correspondence and other means of communication.

according to the BTRC act 2001 the function and duties of that commission included specifically the three below among few others

1.to encourage research and development activities in telecommunication, and innovative activities and investment in providing telecommunication services;

2.to protect the social and economic interests of the consumers, to respond to their needs, and to control and abolish the existing and probable oppressive or discriminatory conduct or activities of the telecommunication service providers;

3. to ensure protection of the privacy of telecommunication;

Ofcourse, this act was not left unscathed just as our constitution and many other laws. in 2006 an amendment was brought which gives sweeping power to the authority to monitor. But there may be doubts on the constitutionality of the entire 2006 amendment.and does even that amendment allow the authority to monitor each and every net users of the country without any specific allegation or some kind of reason to doubt the person who is being monitored??Ofcourse not

But no no no…you are not allowed to say all these. may be that will find them reasons to track you down, so you have already stopped being loud and clear about your views in real life now it’s time to stop doing it in the virtual life as well. You cannot do bloggorbloggor anymore, you are not allowed to do much bokorbokor (speaking your heart out) even among your friends as you know ‘deyalero kaan ache’ (even the walls are watching you, hearing you ). we don’t need hearts anymore, only ears will do.hearts always mislead but ears can help to find out those misled lot.the only problem is these very useful ears cannot breath. ufff, if we could only get rid of our hearts !!!!!