The Canadian manufacturer of BlackBerry announced Thursday it had blocked access to pornographic websites on its smartphones in Indonesia, as required by the government which had set an ultimatum Friday. Research In Motion (RIM) was under the threat of a partial suspension of its services if it did not stop before January 21, access to sites "pornographic".Indonesia, a country of 240 million inhabitants, is one of the major markets of the BlackBerry with more than two million customers and prospects. The Minister of Telecommunications and Communication, Tifatul Sembiring, who had set the ultimatum, praised RIM. "God willing, RIM respects the laws and regulations of Indonesia.
The child began to be blocked," he said in a message on Twitter, one of its preferred means of communication. In fact, sites deemed licentious, such as www. playboy. com, were unavailable Thursday. A message displayed on the screen of the BlackBerry: "The site you are trying to open is inaccessible over the network." VIDEOS SCANDAL Mr.
Tifatul, elected a conservative Islamic party, left last year's war against pornography in the wake of a scandal in online distribution of videos of sex scenes involving a popular singer and two presenters. In July he had ordered the ISPs to block access to sex sites in the country with the most Muslims in the world.
Mr. Sembiring is frequently criticized on the Web, where many Internet users accuse it of attempting to regulate freedom of expression. RIM, which until now filtered content of the BlackBerry in any country where it operates, has expressed his determination to "continue its investment in Indonesia." During the summer of 2010, several countries including the United Arab Emirates and India, had also asked RIM to give them access to its encryption keys.
BlackBerry use is indeed a secure encryption system, which makes monitoring messages sent or received from these terminals very difficult. After several weeks of negotiations and threats to ban BlackBerry services were given a reprieve. In the absence of encryption keys, most of these countries are asking RIM to install servers on their soil, allowing them to directly control the messages on requisition record.
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