Indonesia blocks online-blogging site Tumblr over porn


  • TECH
  • Tuesday, 06 Mar 2018

The ministry on Tuesday said Tumblr would be accessible again once the company complied with the government

Indonesia has blocked online blogging service Tumblr over pornographic content, the government said, in Jakarta's latest crackdown on obscenity.

The government of the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation blocked Tumblr, saying the New York-based company had not replied to its February letter demanding that pornographic content be scrubbed from the platform within 48 hours.

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