477 websites over adult-rated content Banned in Indonesia
Indonesia will block 477 sites, including informal community and microblog Tumblr, over asserted “pornography content sites”, a top official said on Wednesday. “I have signed off the letter and sent it to the network service providers.
477 websites over adult-rated content Banned in Indonesia
These sites ought to be obstructed in the following a few days,” Xinhua cited Azhar Hasyim, e-business director at the Communication and Information Ministry in Jakarta, as saying.
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He said that these sites have abused the country’s information and electronic law which restricts sharing posts that contain indecency. Azhar said that his office had not warned the owners of the sites ahead of time yet would communicate later on.
“When they have consented to tidy up their sites from pornography content, then we will instantly revive the entrance,” said Azhar. The Indonesian government has in the past banned access to sites with grown-up appraised and star terrorism content.