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on Monday February 01 2016, @06:57AM
from the what's-the-code-for-netflix-porn dept.
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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Don't believe everything you hear or anything you say.
(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.