Indonesia in pre-Ramadan web porn blitz
Another government comes down hard on smut
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Indonesia’s government has decided to come down hard on internet porn, blocking access to at least one million smutty sites ahead of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
The vast south-east Asian nation, which has a larger Muslim population than any other at over 200 million, has strict laws relating to “negative content” online.
The country’s Electronic Information and Transaction Law and Telecommunication Law require that such content – which applies to porn as well as defamatory content and malware-laden sites – be blocked, according to the Jakarta Globe.
Such laws forced Research In Motion to block access to pornographic content in the country in January last year, after the firm was threatened with having its license revoked.
They also led to a three and a half year jail sentence for local pop star Nazril "Ariel" Irham after two sex tapes he made were leaked online.
The Indonesia government doesn’t have a comprehensive internet filtering system in place, instead relying on government censors as well as tips from morally offended members of the public to spot dodgy content.
“We’ll intensify [efforts to] block porn web sites. At least one million negative web sites have been blocked [so far], most of them foreign,” said communication and information minister, Tifatul Sembiring, according to the Globe.
“We cannot check one by one. So we hope people will actively report to the communication and information minister if they find a link to negative web site.”
Who knows, maybe the newly formed Internet Defense League will decide to shine its feline call-to-arms in the skies above Jakarta and mobilise action against this assault on web freedoms. ®
COMMENTS
@J1
I, as an atheist, say that you are free to believe whatever you want to, just as everyone else is free to believe what they want.
If you believe that your god says you shouldn't do something, fine, don't do it, I have no problem with that. However you also seem to think that because *you* don't like something, *we* should not be allowed to do it and that I have a problem with.
To say that only your god (or any god) can define what is right and wrong is supremely presumptuous. I do not cheat, steal, murder etc etc because I *CHOOSE* not to. Not because I am threatened with some alleged divine vengeance at the end of my life, but because I consider the world is a better place *now* if I don't do them.
So please, feel free to hold to whatever beliefs you want and don't do things that you consider are "forbidden" to you, but do not be so arrogant as to consider everyone else to be so weak-minded and morally bankrupt that they need *you* to protect them from all the bad things in the world with a "Nanny (or god) knows best" attitude.
Re: Out of curiosity ... @J1
@J1
The users of El Reg are sophisticated, erudite, suave and urbane and refined intellectuals imbued with unusually high levels of élan. We don't f^%&ing swear.
And as far as god is concerned, which god ? There is a list here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deities you can choose from. One of my favourites is Thor. He was /so/ good he has an entire day named after him. And of course it is only one day to the weekend!
Thor did not really define 'right and wrong' ; it more a case of 'don't get in my way.............'.
Hard to argue with a man with a massive hammer.
Re: Out of curiosity ...
"The issue is one of what is right and wrong...." Well that is wrong right from the outset. The issue is what one group of people BELIEVE to be right and are therefore forcing their selective views on everyone in the country.
".....In the case of Islam, the law, right and wrong are defined by God....." I think not. Did your "God" speak publicly to all and sundry? No he didn't. In fact, all you have is the word of one man and then a load of furious arguing from his followers as to what he said/meant/did, usually said arguing being directly related to who got the power to tell everyone else what he wanted them to think "God" said. Not too long ago David Icke came out with a similar line, will you be happy to let him control your Internet as he seems to have just as good a claim as your "Prophet"? I doubt it.
".... I do not use this site much...." Shame, you would learn a whole lot that the censors in Indonesia wouldn't like you to learn.
"..... The use of such language is merely an advert for ones state of mind, lack of self control, and ability to communicate." Your touching faith in a 7th Century faitytale that approves paedophillia, the killing of Jews simply due to their religion, and espouses the oppression of women, does little to enhance my view of your ability to think for yourself.
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