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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: 2, Interesting) by fustakrakich on Wednesday January 03 2018, @11:36PM

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Wednesday January 03 2018, @11:36PM (#617416) Journal

    Well, maybe out of this will come better methods of circumvention, and more secure communication for all of us. *Route around the damage*. The internet is supposed to be able to do that, but when you're chained to an ISP as the single point of failure, there's not a lot of redundancy to help you out

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