Indonesia Bans Vimeo, Fun

Where's Beck when you need him? If anyone could defy the logic of Indonesia's new sex laws, it would be him.

According to XBiz (link below), Indonesia has banned the streaming video service Vimeo because of its lax attitude towards nudity.

A 2008 Indonesian law defines porn as any content that includes nudity, or nudity-like content... creating a public outcry in a country considered to be one of the world's largest users of social media.

Despite that outcry, the country's leading censorship expert says that it was actually the public that demanded the ban.

Censorship crusader, Information and Communication Minister Tiffatul Sembiring said in a statement that the move was sparked by public complaints. He cited 15,000 videos tagged with words related to nudity and ordered all Indonesia-based ISPs to block Vimeo. Sembiring reportedly sent a letter asking Vimeo to block the "explicit" content. "We hope Vimeo would respond well to our request for stricter content filters for its video materials in Indonesia," Sembiring said.

Vimeo took to Twitter, defending its stance as a non-pornographic site, though Indonesia's not having any of it.

Vimeo joins a list of 119 sites banned for the content in question. Sembiring's attack on porn has been ongoing since he ordered the shut down of more than 1 million porn sites in 2012.

So yeah, it's probably best to just avoid all porn if you're in Indonesia, but if you like to live on the edge, here's a video of Indonesian adult film star Nyomi Marcela masturbating.

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Via XBiz