I can only stand seeing so many al qaeda and/or Hussein Obama videos on youtube.

kgs_mvs on April 2, 2008 at 4:26 PM

Well spotted!

The quotes were grossly taken out of context and it makes ALL of us Muslims look like a bunch of violent freaks. The vast majority of us (9.9999999%) are not violent freaks and that video put a bad image of Muslims and it gives a misrepresentation of Islam.

Years ago, when I was a network admin, I used to employ a program called squidguard on Linux to block sites/types of files, etc. It really isn’t very difficult if you have the right tools.

jdawg on April 2, 2008 at 10:30 AM

Easy to do, if you control the network connections and can force them to go through your proxy server. But only if you block all SSL web servers, because there are some SSL web servers that exist only to encrypt and proxy the web page in order to bypass all filters.

I think the only practical approach is to try to control DNS so the youtube URL doesn’t resolve to the actual IP address. But all it really takes to bypass that is to put the IP address for Youtube in your hosts file or change your DNS name servers to use those outside of Indonesia.

The problem with Indonesia changing their DNS servers is that those changes might propagate to other DNS servers and cause severe problems for Youtube around the world. Indonesia wouldn’t be bothered by that, but everyone else would be.

Of course, all it takes is for someone to download the video and start emailing it.

Censorship in the Internet age is nearly impossible.

Freedom of speech is under assault … the threat is so great that Geert Wilders’ film can not be shown in public …. There is widespread denial, across the political spectrum, of Islam’s threat to our civilization……

It’s no different than the games Microsoft plays with China.

It’s the war of ideas, for ‘hearts and minds’, they’re aiming to, and easier for them, to win.

Connie on April 2, 2008 at 11:06 AM

How do you do that?

mojo on April 2, 2008 at 11:27 AM

I have lived in Indonesia. I was treated very well while I was there. However, that was back when I considered myself an agnostic and I didn’t talk about Christianity at all. If I were there today and spoke publicly in the same way as I do here on HotAir, how do you think I would be treated?

Ban ‘em, SBY, and see what the rakyat have to say about it. It’s more likely to be distributed by pirated CD copies in Indonesia anyway.

How many churches were diresolusi and closed in Indonesia last year? And SBY has the gall to lecture on “a moral obligation to prevent religious or cultural defamation”. Unbelievable.

LimeyGeek on April 2, 2008 at 11:19 AM

It’s actually amusing. Since I posted the above to you, there have been 2 more Fitna hits from Malaysia and one from Egypt. Looks like the citizens are voting for the right to see it, imo.

LimeyGeek on April 2, 2008 at 11:19 AM

Yeah. Here’s another just in:

Domain Name tm.net.my ? (Malaysia)
IP Address 60.50.12.# (Telekom Malaysia Berhad)
ISP Telekom Malaysia Berhad
Location
Continent : Asia
Country : Malaysia (Facts)
State/Region : Kedah
City : Sungai Petani

I’m assuming, as imposing some sort of keyword block, but is there any way to limit that block to a single site or would you necessarily have to block that keyword for the entire Internet?

It would all depend on the different filtering program you are using and you would use multiple key words to block it that way like “Fitna + YouTube”.

An easier way is if you know exactly what the specific URL is to block, which each video has on YouTube and all the need to do is block that.

An example is all they would want to do is block http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37w-aXGk8M0 and any other URL pointing to the video.

Never piss off someone with global media coverage, ya schmucks.

LimeyGeek on April 2, 2008 at 11:14 AM

I don’t know. I have a file from HA’s sitemeter that I’m keeping. I’ll have to read back through to see.

Connie on April 2, 2008 at 11:06 AM

Does Indonesia have only one (state run) ISP? Telekomunikasi Indonesia?

OMG Obama’s middle name is HUSSEIN? He lived in Indonesia? That is breaking news. He must be a terrist.

And no, Obama would not employ Wright to perform the swearing in ceremony. Duh.

And everyone who embraces Christianity is welcome with open arms but not Obama? Shame on you. You’re a horrible Christian.

Domain Name telkom.net.id ? (Indonesia)
IP Address 222.124.219.# (PT. Telekomunikasi Indonesia)
ISP PT. Telekomunikasi Indonesia
Location
Continent : Asia
Country : Indonesia (Facts)
State/Region : Jawa Barat
City : Jakarta

The government of the world’s most populous Islamic state says YouTube has two days to take down a Dutch lawmaker’s provocative film on the Koran or it will block access to the popular video-sharing Web site…

Welcome to the world, Indonesia…..of free speech.

Barack’s “My Spiritual Journey“, which appeared in Time Magazine Monday, Oct. 16, 2006, mentions the name of “Jesus” exactly zero (0) times. In that same article, Obama said.

It was because of these newfound understandings…that I was finally able to walk down the aisle of Trinity United Church of Christ one day and be baptized.

Rev. “God Damn America” Wright was the source of Obama’s “newfound understandings”. The same man who would likely be Obama’s choice to administer the Oath of Office to him, if Obama were to be elected.

And yet Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. is acting like he is a Christian, in order to fool Christian voters. Under pressure, he has claimed that he is a Christian and “prays every night to Jesus”. All he has to do to convince Bible-believing Christians that he is, in fact, a Christian, is to confess with his mouth, “Jesus is Lord”.

Three. Simple. Words.

But he can’t and won’t do it.

Why?

Because:

Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed, and no one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit.
1 Corinthians 12:3 (New King James Version)