New Indonesia web system blocks 70,000 'negative' sites
Installed at US$15m, it uses 44 servers to search internet content and issue alerts
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INDONESIA has blocked more than 70,000 websites displaying "negative" content such as pornography or extremist ideology in the first month of using a new system to help purge the internet of harmful material, said its communications minister.
The world's most populous Muslim-majority country has stepped up efforts to control online content after a rise in hoax stories and hate speech, and amid controversial anti-pornography laws pushed by Islamic parties.
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