Vimeo meets Censorship in Indonesia

Indonesia has been censoring sites that it found to be contrary to their government’s view of the world. This has led to some rather odd choices. Over the weekend the government there decided that the popular video sharing site, Vimeo, was to be added to the list of websites that should be blocked. The rationale being that this site could serve of pornography and other such things.

I can’t help but see the parallel with the Turkish government and their attempts to block Twitter in order to maintain power. All of this was because of leaked material which ostensibly demonstrated corruption that could have potentially destabilized the government.