Over the weekend, the Indonesian government blocked numerous websites and services, including cook for a couple, Epic Games Store, Ubisoft Connect, Source, Nintendo Online, Yahoo or PayPal. These are companies that have not registered under the country’s new internet control laws.
Not only the people of Indonesia, but others have criticized the ministry for this move. At the very least, they unlocked PayPal for five days so users can withdraw their money.
New laws allow Indonesian authorities to force platforms and companies to publish user data and deleted contentthat is considered illegal or violates public order, within 24 hours. If the situation is marked as urgent, it must be resolved within 4 hours.
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Wow Cominfo…… you are so good at making stupid decisions pic.twitter.com/sLkJlehbCj
— Enrico Cool (@Enrico_Pom) July 31, 2022
Amazon, Meta (Facebook), Google, Apple, Roblox, Netflix, Microsoft or Riot Games met the registration deadline and received a license. It is not clear whether other companies have forgotten about the start of the laws, they can also ignore them and boycott them. The media, groups and human rights activists constantly oppose him because he threatens freedom of expression.
They don’t talk much about this, but about Indonesia with its population (270 million) is the fourth most populous country on Earth, is a huge market for online services, has the third largest number of users on Facebook and is one of the top ten users of YouTube, TikTok, Twitter, Instagram and WhatsApp. Until the situation clears up, Indonesians bypass the blocking of services and sites through VPN.
Meanwhile, the Indonesian ministry has apologized to its citizens, noting that it was forced to take such a step. The blocking is not permanent, it is enough for the company to register in the database.
Kominfo has apologized to those affected but says it was forced to take a step due to non-compliance
PayPal will be unlocked for 5 days for people to manage or withdraw their money.
They also heard from Valve who are planning to sign up (so Steam should be unlocked soon) https://t.co/0BwK16Hpzl
— Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) July 31, 2022
Source :Indian TV
