Over at Techdirt, Glyn Moody writes about Vietnam's Internet monitoring unit called "Force 47". The unit is a large team, around 10,000 in number, tasked with combating prohibited viewpoints, inconvenient facts, and anything against policy through monitoring, complaints, and astroturfing.
Facebook this year removed 159 accounts at Vietnam's behest, while YouTube took down 4,500 videos, or 90 percent of what the government requested, according to VietnamNet news, which cited Minister of Information and Communications Truong Minh Tuan last week. The National Assembly is debating a cybersecurity bill that would require technology companies to store certain data on servers in the country.
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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
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 05 2018, @09:20AM (1 child)
I am tired of fuck dead body is look alike as well.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 05 2018, @04:23PM
Gesundheit
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 05 2018, @02:46PM (8 children)
We've got all those liberals trying to stamp out any views that they brand as "Nazi" or "Fascist". Not only did we fail to win the Vietnam war, but it looks like they actually defeated us!! We're growing more like them!
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 05 2018, @04:14PM (4 children)
White supremacists stamp out, liberals point out reality and let the shitty humans experience the judgment they deserve.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 05 2018, @04:45PM (1 child)
The problem is, douchebag, you're pointing at everyone who isn't liberal, and classifying them all as shite supremacits. Take a family of black people living in a slum somewhere - if they don't agree with your bullshit progressivism, they're racist-assed shite supremacists. A gay who isn't progressive enough for you is also a shite supremacist. Know what? You are the shite - you look just like those goose-stepping Nazi assholes, trying to tell everyone how to think, what to do, how to talk.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 05 2018, @05:34PM
Nah that's just your insanity peaking through. You paint a broad picture with "liberals" stomping down on wrong think, however I remember the ever-present trend of conservatives LITERALLY stomping down on a wide range of human behavior.
Your whining may have a little truth to it, but mostly you reek of dethroned privilege. The reverse Godwinning is cute if a little desperate.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 05 2018, @04:48PM (1 child)
What I'd like to know is, why do liberals eat shit and bark at the moon?
(Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 05 2018, @05:36PM
They saw what got Trump into office and figured there must be something to it...
(Score: 5, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Friday January 05 2018, @07:43PM (2 children)
We've got all those liberals trying to stamp out any views...
Ohh, scary "liberals" made out of straw!
Meanwhile, the President of the freaking United States is trying to censor acritical book. [washingtonpost.com]
And he's hypocritically trying to silence people making disparaging comments. [go.com]
You know, actual government censorship and you're totally fine with it.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday January 05 2018, @08:57PM (1 child)
Of course they are. Look, one thing I resolved to do in 2018 is stop giving people who say shit like this, when they're guilty of it themselves a million times more, any more credibility. I'm done with their bullshit projection. They don't register as adult humans with me any longer. There are over 100 million Americans I've mentally relegated to the playpen as of 1 January, and fuck 'em. When they can stop shitting the bed on the regular, they can come out. Until then, fuck 'em.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 05 2018, @09:57PM
It is a bit sad, Trump supporters often fall into the "internet tough guy" category which means it is insanely hard for them to admit being wrong. Thus we see the desperate projections and outright lies to try and maintain their sense of superiority. I learned recently that many libertarian's / conservatives believe they are acting 100% rationally, but in reality they are using anecdotes and emotion to push non-rational agendas.
Everyone does this to varying degrees, but libertarians tend to have a much wider gap between their subconscious and their "logical" conscious mind. This is how they are able to maintain a belief in simplistic answers such as meritocracy and earned privileges, their subconscious is adding a few tons to the scale under the GUISE of logic and reason. When any flaws are highlighted it creates an anger response that again is subjugated and that emotional energy is re-framed again as logic and reason.
Again, before you libertarians get too upset this is a generalization that applies to all humans, I have simply noticed the stark contrast in degree between people of different political leanings. Now, why is the distribution so skewed? My guess is that in the US libertarians are at a sort of crossroads between liberals and conservatives. The simplicity of maximizing freedom is seductive, and there is a ton of political propaganda that is presumed to be correct. Example: receiving the fruit of one's own labors is the general belief behind capitalism, but in practice it becomes way more theft than taxes. Cue responses of bootstrapping your own company to compete, etc.