Aulia MasnaAug 3, 2024

So this happened. Indonesia just banned WordPress. The Communications Ministry hasn’t provided a reason.

#Indonesia #Blokir #Kominfo #gambling #judol #censorship
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Indonesia just banned WordPress. No reason given but DuckDuckGo was banned since last month for refusing to censor search queries related to porn and online gambling. The trustpositif website is the country’s web address block list database managed by the Communications and Informatics Ministry. tip @techmeme

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Block was short lived. Apparently it was indeed part of the war against online gambling because there are so many site redirects by gambling site operators using WordPress.

After including the WordPress domain on the blocklist yesterday, the Kominfo team must have realized they blocked way more than what they wanted and lifted it within the past hour.

#Indonesia #Blokir #Kominfo #gambling #judol #censorship

Aug 3, 2024 at 1:45pmWeb