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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: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 04 2018, @12:21AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 04 2018, @12:21AM (#617440)

    Before someone rants about how oppressive Indonesia is, it really isn't that much, especially considering the country's demographics. The majority population is muslim, one province fought a civil war to practice sharia in their corner of the country. And since freedom of speech is mostly given, the last thing the government wants is a bunch of good righteous muslims to start meeting and discussing how to address the problem of Western Filth entering their precious bodily fluids.

    Just looked at my photo archives again from my visit to the customs museum in Malacca, Malaysia. Ethnically similar, one colonized by the English, the other by the Dutch. They displayed some of the contraband they seized. Rather low-def metal and wood statuettes of nudes had a (pretty) layer of fabric laid over the naughty bits, so they could be acceptable for display.

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