Indonesia, the country with largest Muslim population has announced its plan to ask all internet service providers, to block access to porno sites.

In August, the country announced that it had blocked nearly 4 million pornographic sites. Tifatul Sembiring, Communications and Information Technology Minister of the country condemned the visit of porn star, Tera Patrick, in October last year.

Now the same minister has gained success by RIM, agreeing to block porn content. The move by the RIM has unruffled the advocates of free speech.

RIM had few choices

Such attacks have been more frequent in countries like China, Burma, Egypt, Israel, Mexico, Iran, Russia, USA and Tunisia.

DDoS attacks similar to those which were targeted at the sites of companies like Amazon, Visa, PayPal and denied services to WikiLeaks are becoming more and more popular, thereby threatening free speech on the Internet.

All about a DDoS attack

With this aim in mind, the Minister for Communications is going to ask all Internet Service Providers (ISP’s) to block all porn sites and then allow user requests after verifying their age.

The idea for blocking porn sites on the net was given by Conservative Party MP, Claire Perry, who started her call for greater regulation of the internet, citing her primary concern ‘as a mother’.