My Space and You-Tube Banned in Indonesia

Just a few days ago the governement of Indonesia banned the use of sites such as "My Space" and "You-Tube" due to an anti-Islamic video. The article is quite interesting. I will let you decided on your political opinions. So here is the article if you are interested.










Article from newspaper:
JAKARTA (AFP) - Indonesia has blocked access to YouTube, MySpace and
other websites showing an anti-Islamic film that has sparked
widespread protests, Internet providers said Tuesday.

Indonesia's main Internet providers said they had acted on a
government request to block websites showing the film.

The move came after the communications minister last week wrote to the
file-sharing site, YouTube, asking it to remove the 17-minute film,
"Fitnah," made by far-right Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders.

"We apologise, we have for the time being blocked sites and blogs
which carry 'Fitna,' at the request of the minister for communication
and IT," Internet provider Speedy said on its website.

Speedy said it had stopped users accessing eight different sites,
including blogs that carried the film.

Another provider, Radnet, told users it was "temporarily closing
access" to YouTube and MySpace, a popular social networking site, at
the minister's request.

The film features imagery of the September 11, 2001 attacks on New
York and the 2004 Madrid bombings combined with quotes from the Koran,
Islam's holy book.

The minister wrote to Internet providers last week asking them to
block access to sites that carried the film on the grounds that it
could "disturb religious and civil harmony at a global level."

Muslim groups here have held several protests outside the Dutch
embassy in the capital Jakarta.

Most have passed off peacefully, but last Wednesday dozens of members
of a Muslim student group attacked a Dutch consulate building on
Sumatra island, burning a flag and breaking down the gates.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has banned screenings of the film
and barred Wilders from entering Indonesia, the world's most populous
Muslim nation with some 90 percent of its 230 million people following
Islam.