Good luck with that. Will they re-block it once they realize that’s rather impossible? Or are they feeling some heat over having taken such sweeping measures, and looking to make that go away while still appearing to do something about Fitna? At any rate, it’s Peanut Butter Jelly Time in Indonesia again for the moment.
An update on this story. “Indonesia restores access to YouTube Web site,” from Reuters:
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s Internet service providers have restored access to YouTube and other Web sites that carried a Dutch lawmaker’s film that accuses the Koran of inciting violence, an industry official said on Friday.
Isnawan, vice chairman of the Indonesian Internet Providers Association, said service providers would only block access to pages carrying the film by Geert Wilders, leader of the Dutch anti-immigration Freedom Party, which alternates images of the September 11, 2001 attacks and other Islamist bombings with quotations from the Koran.
The move followed protests by web users who said they were disadvantaged by the banning of several sites including YouTube, Multiply and My Space.
“We don’t need to block the sites but only links that broadcast the film. If the film is moved to another site, we will keep on chasing and block it,” Isnawan said.
The Web sites were fully blocked on Monday and Tuesday.
Titled “Fitna,” a Koranic term sometimes translated as “strife,” the film also shows an image of the Prophet Mohammad primed to explode and says the rising number of Muslims in Europe threatens democratic values.