Indonesia has welcomed a planned filter for pornographic content on BlackBerry handsets in the country.
Canadian Research in Motion (RIM) said it will start filtering web content on Indonesian users handsets in response to a threat from the government to block it from the market.
"We've heard about RIM saying it will filter the Internet.... That's good news to us and we highly appreciate ... [ read the full article ]
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I don't know why US companies keep doing censorship for foreign dictatorships...just leave the country, cut off support, and watch them crumble to the point that they offer constitutional protections for free speech just to prevent a total collapse.
@killerbug...well actually it is not a dictatorship, I am an Indonesian will be more agreed if we can see this and say this as a silliness of the ministry, not dictatorship (worse actually LOL), what he said several days ago is that RIM has to prevent and filter the porn accessing, or RIM will be banned soon. But, he did not concern that most of the BB users in Indonesia are clever enough to not opening the porn from their Blackberry, if he is smart, why he didnt think that people will more likely use the PC's internet to browse for porn than from BB, and his decision is little bit absurd...
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Originally posted by KillerBug: I don't know why US companies keep doing censorship for foreign dictatorships...just leave the country, cut off support, and watch them crumble to the point that they offer constitutional protections for free speech just to prevent a total collapse.
Indonesia is a stupid backward muslim country. How stupid is the the indonesian government? Very. You can't single out RIM. There are probably millions of PC in that country and each of have access to porn sites.
