Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Another law to fight porn on internet


This one came from my home country, Indonesia, where the government’s parliament passed a new information bills on Tuesday. This new bills is concentrated on plans to restrict internet access (in Indonesia) to porn & violent sites, the Electronic Information and Transactions Law legislation is going to use special software that can be downloaded from their website. But this new law will also going to allow courts to accept electronic evidence, and those who found guilty for making and spreading the banned contents could be sentenced up to six years in prison or a fine of 1 billion Rupiah ($109,000).
I’m glad the government finally takes more serious actions on the danger of free contents on the internet; because with only a mobile phone in the hand of a child can be exposed to pornography, racism, violent, and false news. It’s frightening to imagine what kind of results on growing children that fed with contents like that everyday. Although I have my own pessimistic on how far this new law is going to be taken in real life action, I hope this is not just another short rage from Muslim-majority parliament members… Read on the great complete article at PC World here.
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