41 Comments on “Blocking Youtube & Myspace”

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1. KB Says:
   April 10th, 2008 at 8:32 pm

   Even though it is easy to bypass the blockage through the use of VPN’s and Proxy services most people don’t know about these things. They know that they cannot block everyone but don’t care. If they keep the bulk of the people from seeing these things they have accomplished their goal.

2. Patung Says:
   April 11th, 2008 at 5:23 pm

   This is the list of direct, specific urls that are blocked now:

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LyeviTOh2w
   http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-294954647556 1 399959
   http://wikileaks.org/wikii Fitna_anti-islam_movie_by_ceert_Wilders
   http://video.aof .mm/videodetaillfitna-the-movie/16966′16402
   http://blogfilmfitna.blogspot.com
   http://file.sunshinepress.org :5444s/fitna-fl ash-video.zip
   http://wikileaks.org/lealdfltna-fl ash-video.zip
   http://thepiratebay.o tglto 4 1 027 38 lFitna_the_movie_-.English_-_AVl_and_FLV_format

   I think they missed a few….

3. jawa.apostate Says:
   April 11th, 2008 at 8:48 pm

   Hurraay to the Indonesian Government!!!
   Celebrating 100 years of… I don’t know, you name it…

   The thing they did with the blocking is something wasteful, they spent too much on doing this. Funny how you can override the block by translating the website using Google Translator. Some CLEVER blocking eh?? I say it’s LAME. Even if they’er gonna do something stupid they should’ve done it brillianty – say use really powerful software that we can’t override (we’re just a bunch of kids without IT education)

   Or maybe they’re just trying to hide even more sex scandal videos of the most honored parliament??

4. Patung Says:
   April 12th, 2008 at 11:05 am

   Muhammad Nuh is supposed to have apologised for blocking youtube, etc.

   I openly ask the public’s forgiveness for the inconvenience caused over the past few days by the blocking of sites

   This was a consequence of a process designed to protect the state.

   Protecting the state?

   And Google finally responded to the ministry’s initial complaint, and said:

   We propose that the ministry send a list of videos believed to be illegal, noting the specific web addresses. We will promptly review the ministry’s list and remove any illegal [under indonesian law] videos from display to Indonesian YouTube users.

   So Google will help the government block certain material to Indonesians, maybe similar to how they ‘cooperate’ with the Chinese government.

   link – http://news.id.msn.com/regional/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1337236

5. Lairedion Says:
   April 12th, 2008 at 1:35 pm

   This was a consequence of a process designed to protect the state.

   Protecting the state?

   Yeah, you can’t be careful enough. Indonesia was on the verge of being overrun by Wilderism, inspired by Fitna.

   So Google will help the government block certain material to Indonesians, maybe similar to how they ‘cooperate’ with the Chinese government.

   This is a worrying development. The “free internet” soon will be dominated by Micro$oft, who wants to make a hostile takeover of Yahoo and Google who is starting to show the characteristics of Micro$oft by giving in to governments opposed to free speech.

6. dewaratugedeanom Says:
   April 12th, 2008 at 6:48 pm

   jawa.apostate

   Or maybe they’re just trying to hide even more sex scandal videos of the most honored parliament??

   And kill two birds with one stone? Don’t bring them to ideas.

   We propose that the ministry send a list of videos believed to be illegal, noting the specific web addresses. We will promptly review the ministry’s list and remove any illegal [under indonesian law] videos from display to Indonesian YouTube users.

   You see, it started already.

7. Doni Says:
   April 12th, 2008 at 9:00 pm

   Definitely overkill and a desperate measure by a country which claims itself to be democratic. What happened to freedom of speech and expression which Indonesia has been trying so hard to improve in order dissociate herself from the Soeharto era? It seems like banning these sites just shows that Indonesia is still not ready to move on to total democracy yet. What a pity!

8. Jakartass Says:
   April 13th, 2008 at 1:51 pm

   I heard a whisper last night (from a reliable but unattributable source) that given his now very tarnished reputation a certain newspaper/media group has taken an editorial line to not listen to IT’s own Mr. Rent-a-quote, Roy Suryo.

9. Jakartass Says:
   April 13th, 2008 at 2:17 pm

   Is anyone outside Jakarta having problems accessing Blogspot blogs (such as mine) through Telkom? The Rev thinks it’s a national disgrace but I think it’s typical incompetence

10. Marisa Says:
    April 13th, 2008 at 4:20 pm

    @ Jakartass

    I’m in Jakarta and using Telkom, but I haven’t been able to open Blogspot blogs so far. I can access MySpace and YouTube though.

11. Patung Says:
    April 13th, 2008 at 5:23 pm

    On linknet blogspot sites can be accessed ok, linknet I notice were extremely quick to unblock youtube after the backflip. So, something good can be said about them after all.

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