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posted by mrpg on Wednesday January 03 2018, @08:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the happy-new-year dept.

Indonesia's Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Ministry is set to implement a new $14 million Internet censorship system from Wednesday. The new system will automatically block pornography and other content deemed to be unsuitable by the government, following years of manual monitoring which has failed to adequately police the abundance of illicit online content.

The ministry's Information Applications Director General Semuel Pangerapan said the machine is equipped with artificial intelligence that will crawl websites and use keywords to detect inappropriate content.

"After the content is crawled, our team will evaluate and verify the data," Pangerapan told Arab News. "We will then block sites that are validated as carrying negative content. This machine will make our jobs a lot faster." The new system will enable the ministry to identify a range of negative content referencing topics from gambling, terrorism, fraud and drugs, to hoaxes and fake news, he added.

Indonesia introduces new Internet censorship system


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 03 2018, @09:47PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 03 2018, @09:47PM (#617367)

    Indonesia's current condition is largely due to USA.gov's Imperialism.
    Bird Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty, USAF, Ret. has described[1] [google.com] how, in 1965, USAF transported tens of thousands of rifles to Indonesia on behalf of CIA.
    Those were used to murder over a million of the population who were not in favor or USA.gov Imperialism and Plantation Capitalism.

    [1] Typically, once a year, on his midnight to 6AM KPFK program, Roy Tuckman airs the audiobook [google.com] (over 3 nights).
    It will then be in KPFK's audio archive for 2 months.

    There's a film [google.com] where the mass murderers tell their stories.
    There is no remorse, only pride in their heinous acts.
    Indonesia is now one of the most violent, uncivil societies on the planet.

    Indonesia is the end state of Capitalism (a Fascist Oligarchy). [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [dissidentvoice.org]

    -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

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  • (Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Wednesday January 03 2018, @10:38PM

    by fyngyrz (6567) on Wednesday January 03 2018, @10:38PM (#617396) Journal

    Indonesia's current condition is largely due to USA.gov's Imperialism.

    I don't doubt it, considering that can be truthfully said of many other countries.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 04 2018, @12:09AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 04 2018, @12:09AM (#617434)

    Indonesia's current condition is largely due to USA.gov's Imperialism.

    Oh please! USA, Russia, China... Pick yer poison! Such is life in the prison yard, babe