JAKARTA: Indonesia has blocked more than 70,000 websites displaying “negative” content such as pornography or extremist ideology in the first month of using a new system to help purge the internet of harmful material, the communications minister told Reuters. The world’s most populous Muslim-majority country has stepped up efforts to control online content after a rise in hoax stories and hate speech, and amid controversial anti-pornography laws pushed by Islamic parties. The so-called “crawling system” developed by a unit of state-run Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk (Telkom) was launched in January, using 44 servers to search internet content and issue alerts when inappropriate material is found. “We just put some sort of key words there, most of them are pornographic,” said Minister of Communication and Information Rudiantara, who uses one name.
Veteran cricket journalist Sharda Ugra said the sport is used as a vehicle for a muscular nationalism
The UAE saw record rainfall with 254 mm falling in less than 24 hours in Al Ain, a city on the UAE-Oman border
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese singled Guerot out for praise on Tuesday
The bill passed a vote in Britain’s parliament with 383 in favour and 67 against
The Supreme Court has previously refused to accept two formal apologies from Ramdev and his firm’s co-founder...
