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Ministry's decision to block Tumblr sparks outcry

News Desk (The Jakarta Post)
Jakarta
Tue, March 6, 2018

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Ministry's decision to block Tumblr sparks outcry Netizens complained that the blocking of Tumblr disadvantaged those who had been using the platform for positive things. (Shutterstock/File)

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he Communications and Information Ministry officially released a statement on Tuesday regarding the blocking of microblogging and social networking website Tumblr.

1. Tim Aduan Konten telah menerima aduan dari masyarakat terkait konten asusila di platform T*mb*r. Setelah dilakukan penelusuran dan analisa konten, terdapat lebih dari 360 akun asusila pada medsos t*mb*r dot com dan aplikasinya.

— Kementerian Kominfo (@kemkominfo) March 6, 2018

On Twitter, the ministry announced that its Content Complaint Team had received complaints from the public related to indecent content on Tumblr. Following an investigation and content analysis, it stated that there were more than 360 indecent accounts found on the platform's social media tumblr.com and application.

"We also found that T*mb*r does not have a mechanism nor reporting tools to report indecent content," read the statement. "On Feb. 28, 2018, the Content Complaint Team then sent a notification email to T*mb*r and asked T*mb*r to clean its platform of indecent content, with a maximum response time of 2 x 24 hours."

It added that Tumblr had given no response regarding the complaint after the time limit was up, "Thus [we] have blocked eight [domain name systems] DNSs [owned by] T*mb*r on Monday afternoon, March 5, 2018."

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Netizens quickly responded to the announcement, with many criticizing it of being excessive.

One Twitter user pointed out that the platform actually had a feature that enabled users to report abuse and filter unwanted content.

Another netizen considered the move an easy way out, instead of educating internet users.

Meanwhile, @adedarmawan expressed his disappointment as the decision could affect Tumblr users who had been using the platform for positive things, such as himself, who used it to learn how to create 3D content and to meet with other 3D content creators through the social network. (kes)

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