On April 2nd, CNSNews reported that Indonesian authorities asked YouTube to take down the movie Fitna by Geert Wilders. Google’s YouTube rejected this, arguing YouTube allows people “to express themselves and to communicate with a global audience.” They said:
<<The diversity of the world in which we live – spanning the vast dimensions of ethnicity, religion, nationality, language, political opinion, gender, and sexual orientation, to name a few – means that some of the beliefs and views of some individuals may offend others.>>
After Google’s rejection of the take-down, on April 8th news came in that YouTube at large, as well as Google Video (among other, non-Google owned sites), were now blocked in Indonesia. The information ministry said the order “would stay in place until the Web sites remove the film,” AP at BrisbanTimes writes. This blocking was not a singular incident; YouTube was also recently blocked in China due to videos covering the Tibet issue, and had been blocked in Thailand and other countries before.
The Indonesian ban was met with protest by many Indonesians though. According to CNet, one Indonesian blogger wrote, “Indonesia has entered a dark digital age ... I wonder why the Government made the stupid decision. The 17-minute video was rubbish, and I am not interested in viewing it at all.”
And after three more days, the nationwide ban was lifted again. The Information and Communication Minister Muhammad Nuh said, “I openly ask the public’s forgiveness for the inconvenience caused over the past few days by the blocking of sites,” adding that it was “a consequence of a process designed to protect the state.”
[Thanks Pd and Mohammad!]
[By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: YouTube Was Temporarily Blocked in Indonesia | Comments]
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译文:
YouTube在印度尼西亚遭到暂时屏蔽
4月2日，CNS新闻报道称,印度尼西亚当局要求YouTube撤掉谷歌上面Geert Wilder的电影Fitna，而YouTube方面则拒绝并辩称YouTube让人们能够“表达自己的想法并在世界范围内和观众进行沟通。”他们说道：
<<我们生活的世界是具有多样性的，它跨越了伦理道德、宗教信仰、国籍语言、政治、性别、性取向等等的鸿沟，这意味着一些个人的信仰和观点可能会冒犯别人。>>
在谷歌拒绝撤掉视频后，4月8日的新闻继续报道称YouTube和谷歌视频（部分非谷歌所属网站）现在已经在印度尼西亚境内被屏蔽。 Brisban Times的广告企划 写道，信息部称禁令“不会取消，除非网站撤掉那部电影”。YouTube并不是第一次遭到屏蔽了：由于网站上有报道西藏问题的视频，YouTube最近在中国也遭到了屏蔽，并且之前还被泰国和其他一些国家屏蔽过。
但是屏蔽令却遭到了许多印度尼西亚民众的抗议。一名印度尼西亚网友CNet在他的博客中写道：“印度尼西亚已经进入了黑暗的数字时代。。。我不明白为什么政府会做出这个愚蠢的决定。那则17分钟长的视频就是垃圾，我根本一点都不想看它。”
三天后，屏蔽再次解除了。信息交流部长Muhammad Nud说道：“我对过去几天由于网站屏蔽而引起的不便，公开的请求大家的原谅，”他补充说这是“保护国家的工作而引起的结果。”