from the what's-the-code-for-netflix-porn dept.
TV and movie lovers in Asia jumped for joy earlier this month when Netflix finally launched throughout the region.
Some in Indonesia, however, weren't so excited by the news. The country's largest telco, PT Telkom Indonesia, announced that as of 12 a.m. Wednesday morning they had blocked access to the streaming service on all of its Internet platforms.
Dian Rachmawan, Telkom's Director of Consumers, said the ban was put in place due to Netflix not following the country's broadcast laws and for having violent and "pornographic" content, Indo Telko reports. The exec did not specify which content the company found to be overly violent or indecent.
No cewek cewek nakal [girl bad girl] for you!
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(Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 01 2016, @07:15AM
Netflix? Ugh! You won't find a more wretched hive of scum and villany.
In fact, I once saw the bare bicep of a woman when I was forced to watch content from that that pornographic hellhole!
What's next? Women talking to non blood-related men who aren't their husbands? Men being charged and convicted of rape based on a woman's word?
Thank goodness there's civilized entertainment like PureFlix [pornhub.com], The Dove Channel [extremetube.com], IQRAA [torturegalaxy.com], DALIL [motherless.com] and 4SHABAB [forcedporntube.org].
Thank goodness for goodness!
(Score: 3, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Monday February 01 2016, @07:32AM
Just in case some gullible fool doesn't read the links before clicking, those are all NSFW. You've been warned. A couple may even be NSFH. (not safe for home)
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 01 2016, @07:34AM
Just in case some gullible fool doesn't read the links before clicking, those are all NSFW. You've been warned. A couple may even be NSFH. (not safe for home)
That's right! Religious programming is definitely NSFW and NSFH!
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday February 01 2016, @07:42AM
Whatever. If you choose to open any of those links in your employer's presence while on company time, don't blame me for the consequences.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 01 2016, @07:48AM
Ain't that the truth!
Any employer who sees that you're stupid enough to subscribe to bullshit belief systems will likely terminate you on the spot!
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 01 2016, @09:20AM
Some people have no idea where a link is going to take them.
As evidenced by this very thread, there are a helluva lot of people who still believe what someone tells them.
Without research or verification.
To do so leaves one wide open for being taken advantage of and enslaved.
(Score: 2) by q.kontinuum on Monday February 01 2016, @09:52AM
Soylentnews does show the target domain behind the link. While I do think it's mean to lure people to nsfw websites without warning, I would think the domain names are clue enough. Gets worse when people use URL shorteners...
And of course, SoylentBob would point out the importance of trigger-warnings in this context ;-)
Registered IRC nick on chat.soylentnews.org: qkontinuum
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 01 2016, @02:04PM
Soylentnews does show the target domain behind the link. While I do think it's mean to lure people to nsfw websites without warning, I would think the domain names are clue enough.
Original AC here. I'd just like to clarity that my intent was to use the names of *religious* broadcasters with undisguised links to porn sites as an ironic gesture.
Since, as you correctly point out, no attempt was made to disguise the links and the domain names were clearly visible, it should have been clear to anyone who can read English where those links were pointing.
Anyone who couldn't pay enough attention to the clearly tongue-in-cheek post and clicked on any of those links thinking that the endpoint would be anything other than something completely inappropriate wasn't paying attention or isn't very bright.
(Score: 2) by q.kontinuum on Monday February 01 2016, @02:11PM
... and thats probably why your initial post was rightfully modded funny and not troll :-)
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(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday February 01 2016, @06:27PM
Yep, and despite the fact that those links were obviously pointing to truly pornographic sites (since SoylentNews does show the domain being linked to), there was some religious nut still bitching sarcastically about religious content not being safe for work. I guess that goes to show just how dumb and gullible many religious people are.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 02 2016, @12:20AM
Yep, and despite the fact that those links were obviously pointing to truly pornographic sites (since SoylentNews does show the domain being linked to), there was some religious nut still bitching sarcastically about religious content not being safe for work. I guess that goes to show just how dumb and gullible many religious people are.
I was the one who posted that religious programming is NSFW. I wasn't being sarcastic -- snarky, yes,. but sarcastic, no. What's more, I was poking religious nutters with a stick. Which is good fun!
Religions are false belief systems. There's no reason that a reasonably well educated person should hold such beliefs.
What's more, I knew exactly where those links pointed, as I wrote that post too.
Religious programming is enormously more harmful than porn in my view.
So, plus two points for your obvious conviction about this and minus five points for getting it completely wrong.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 01 2016, @12:14PM
what does nsfh actually mean?
"viewing the content is illegal, and if the police find out you go to jail?" or "viewing the content might get you kicked out of the house"?
my guess would be the first option (since one of the domains says "torture"), but I'm curious what you meant.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday February 01 2016, @12:23PM
I didn't click the torture domain, so I can't say whether the first option might apply. I had in mind the second option. As macho as some our members try to sound, I'm fairly sure that a lot of their wives would dent their frying pans over their heads if they were caught viewing those links. Or - alternatively, she might ask, "Why do you never do me like that? You don't love me, or what?" After which, our intrepid member becomes deceased due to heart failure.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 01 2016, @01:34PM
Or alternative 3, the wife might whisper: "would you like me to do you like that?" with a cucumber in her hand.
Save your ass, don't click those links!
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday February 01 2016, @06:32PM
It could just be a variation of "NSFL" (not safe for life), which is a good warning for extremely violent/gory content. Once you view something like that, you can't just forget it. You can watch it if you want, but many of us prefer to not look at such stuff. The link with "torture" in the domain name sounds like something I really don't want to look at.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 01 2016, @07:52AM
In some places, a woman will be considered a slut for displaying an ankle.
In some places, a girl in a bikini is pornographic.
In other places, like Canada, there is nudity on TV after 10:00, especially for educational programming. My first trip there I saw the silhouette of a woman nude woman built into the side of a building and I realized that my fellow puritanical 'Muricans south of the border would consider this ponographic and have protests in the streets until it was removed.
Meanwhile, in Africa, uneducated 6 year old children know about penises and vaginas and help their parents butcher animals for dinner -- all of which the US would consider "Too Extreme" for typical audiences, while their US kids remain ignorant of basic facts of life largely due to censorship.
Who gives a fuck what Indonesia thinks? I sure as fuck don't. VIEWER DISCRETION EXISTS. IT IS ADVISED THAT YOU USE IT. Stop censoring everyone else when we can all opt to censor for ourselves.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 01 2016, @10:12AM
There is truth in this. While I saw plenty of male magazines after turning 16 I never actually touched a woman's bits until I was 21... at which point other than sticking it in I had no idea what to do. Foreplay? Seduction? Arousal? Oh, we can't have the kids seeing any of that. Dating? You're not married!
Now I know better I will be teaching my kids what they need to know when they need to know it.
In all seriousness, couldn't someone have said "lick her knob, she will suck yours, then you'll screw like bunnies: use a condom"?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 01 2016, @10:52AM
'Muricans
I get it--we're making fun of the lazy speech habits by taking "Americans" and changing it to "'Muricans." That's funny!
HA HA HA HA!! KA-ZING!
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 01 2016, @12:41PM
Yes we are, and yes it is!
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Monday February 01 2016, @12:47PM
No, that's not it. 'Muricans is a specific jab at nativists in the United States. They even formed their own party once, called the "Know-Nothings." That label is still used by some to describe them. The Know-Nothings have had several incarnations, though, including the John Birch Society and now the Tea Party. They are all generally anti-outsider (though the specific type of outsider they hated has varied) and anti-government. Racism is a through line, too. As you can surmise, the strain of thought is particularly popular in the South and in rural, very white areas of Appalachia and the Midwest.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 01 2016, @03:58PM
"'Merican" is better shortened to Merkin [wikipedia.org]. I know Dubya called himself a merkin once or twice.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Monday February 01 2016, @07:56PM
I believe the name "Know Nothings" was applied by the media rather than self selected. I don't know that it was ever accepted by those to whom it was applied. (It still seems a good descriptive term for a certain group of people.)
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by bzipitidoo on Monday February 01 2016, @10:13AM
I wonder if the Indonesian public agrees with this blocking of Netflix. There must be some popular support, otherwise I expect Telkom will very quickly be frog marched into undoing the block.
What could their motive be anyway? I don't believe for a second that they're really interested in the public good, or actually in such high dudgeon over obscenity. They're posturing. Maybe they have or plan to have their own for-profit streaming service or cable tv, and this is merely an anti-competition move.
If the people are fervent believers in free speech (doubtful), then not only will the block be shot down, new laws will be enacted to stop this nonsense of content carriers daring to sit in judgment of the content. We'll see.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Monday February 01 2016, @12:50PM
The Indonesians have their own version of Jerry Falwell. With the exception of Bali (Hindu) it's a heavily Muslim country. It's not surprising that cosmopolitan forces in places like Djakarta are drowned out by the rest.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 01 2016, @03:06PM
Better sub to neflix again, then.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 01 2016, @04:13PM
Can you really get porn on Netflix, or just "Indonesian Porn". Asking for a friend.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by OwMyBrain on Monday February 01 2016, @04:15PM
Netflix is too violent? This coming from the country that gave us The Raid. [imdb.com]
(Score: 2) by M. Baranczak on Monday February 01 2016, @09:50PM