Government Idiosyncracy

Because the internet was down yesterday, I couldn’t get any work done. And I seriously feel the government and Roy Suryo was to blame for it.

Why?

Because I am sure yesterday was the beginning of the day where everyone was desperately milking out all the porn they could get before the government started to ban access to them. And who was a better porn expert if not Roy? All the idiots listen to him, and the last time I checked, those idiots including the people who work for the government.

On top of that, all the paranoia that surrounded the issue of UU ITE and Wilder’s Fitna was enough to make the Minister of Communication and Information, Moh. Nuh, to write a letter to Youtube demanding that Fitna was to be taken off of Youtube, otherwise they would close access of Youtube for Indonesians.

Which was beyond ridiculous, I must say, but enough to make the rest of us internet users feeling more paranoid than usual. If the government was stupid enough to generalise one harmless site such as Youtube to be the source of all evil, what chance would there be for them not to ban other sites too?

Maybe within a year we all must say goodbye to Facebook, Friendster, Multiply and even the actual activity of writing our own personal journal on the net, in which it is usually known as blogging. since it was obvious Mr. Suryo himself could not distinguish the difference between bloggers and hackers, God forbid we’re all guilty of charge!

So paranoid are we, that already a discussion of ‘which porn sites were still accessible’ has already been started at Kaskus, the largest Indonesian Community on the internet.

I read that one person got so paranoid that he thought Friendster was also banned because he could no longer access it, even though those who had responded claimed it was not.

The chance that Youtube would actually realise there was even a request through mail sent by Minister of Communication and Information would be slim to none – I doubt they even know where Indonesia was. And even if Indonesian ISPs ended up blocking access of Youtube, it still wouldn’t affect much of the profit made by Google (the owner of Youtube since 2006). The people who will be at loss are not Youtube or Google, but us Indonesian who are already feeling the beginning the deprivation of freedom and rights for information access.

And all it was because of one lousy documentary that a certain group of religious fanatics seem to dread so much, like FPI, for example.

No, seriously – if absolutely everyone despises them (at least that’s what I’ve heard and read), then why are they still roaming freely on the streets, doing sweepings and unnecessary demonstrations that ended up causing traffic jam and not much else? There’s got to be someone financing their whole act.

Perhaps I should blame them instead of Roy?