As you can see, i’ve almost never post these kinds of thing on my blog, and although 90% of you won’t really care but this is a big deal to us. The Indonesian government is trying to block Tumblr because they think the only things we post here is porn. Now this isn’t the first time they’ve done this, we’ve had Vimeo blocked since a while back, Netflix this month and now they’re trying to take away Tumblr from us.
Please, please, please reblog this and get the word out. I really hope the Tumblr staffs would read this too. No you won’t get 600000 followers from reblogging this, neither will a killer from the 1800s jump out of your closet if you don’t reblog. It’s just a plea for help from a tumblr to another.
We are a part of this big community, we are fandoms bloggers, aesthetic bloggers, random bloggers, social justice bloggers, personal bloggers, literary bloggers just like you.
We need YOUR help to get the words heard of what our government is trying to do.
So according to some friends from Indonesia, I’ve been told Anonymous threatened the ministry and the government hold backed down (for now?) Plus there have been updates on the change.org website!
The Indonesian government has announced a plan on Wednesday to block microblogging and social networking website Tumblr in the country because of explicit content such as pornography as well as material referencing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) relationships.
Its communications and information ministry’s e-business director Azhar Hasyim said his office had sent a statement to Tumblr, saying the website would be blocked in Indonesia until it agreed to remove explicit content.
The move was in accordance with the 2008 Pornography Law, he added.
“If Tumblr then agrees to block pornography and LGBT content from being accessed in Indonesia, we will open [access to] the website again,” Azhar toldthejakartapost.com.
The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI), along with several other Islamic organizations, declared that the existence of LGBT communities was against the Constitution and against religious norms.
[…]
Research and Technology and Higher Education Minister Muhammad Nasir made a controversial statement banning LGBT groups from university campuses.
I actually had no idea what the scope of this was until I heard a brief report on the radio this afternoon. I think it’s easy to be blase with government blocking of sites because “you can get around that”, but of course this isn’t just about kicking the kids off of tumblr. This is comments about removing LGBT kids from schools. This is LGBT workshops getting shut down by police. I don’t know if I’m only seeing posts about the tumblr block because maybe the wider situation in the community isn’t as scary as it sounds (oh wow I would like that to be true), or if it’s because the internet community tends to focus on internet-related stuff because it seems closer and more relevant?
In his new book
Murdoch’s World: The Last of the Old Media Empires, NPR’s David
Folkenflik details how Fox News employees maintain dozens (and, in at
least one case, over 100) different message-board accounts that they use
to flood the comments of blogs that criticize Fox.
In a chapter focusing on how Fox utilized its notoriously ruthless
public relations department in the mid-to-late 00’s, Folkenflik reports
that Fox’s PR staffers would “post pro-Fox rants” in the comments
sections of “negative and even neutral” blog posts written about the
network. According to Folkenflik, the staffers used various tactics to
cover their tracks, including setting up wireless broadband connections
that “could not be traced back” to the network.
A former staffer told Folkenflik that they had personally used “one hundred” fake accounts to plant Fox-friendly commentary:
On the blogs, the fight was particularly fierce. Fox PR staffers
were expected to counter not just negative and even neutral blog
postings but the anti-Fox comments beneath them. One former staffer
recalled using twenty different aliases to post pro-Fox rants. Another
had one hundred. Several employees had to acquire a cell phone thumb
drive to provide a wireless broadband connection that could not be
traced back to a Fox News or News Corp account. Another used an AOL
dial-up connection, even in the age of widespread broadband access, on
the rationale it would be harder to pinpoint its origins. Old laptops
were distributed for these cyber operations. Even blogs with minor
followings were reviewed to ensure no claim went unchecked. [Murdoch’s
World, pg. 67]
Chris Kyle, a US navy Seal from Texas, was deployed to Iraq in 2003 and claimed to have killed more than 255 people during his six-year military career. In his memoir, Kyle reportedly described killing as “fun”, something he “loved”; he was unwavering in his belief that everyone he shot was a “bad guy”. “I hate the damn savages,” he wrote. “I couldn’t give a flying fuck about the Iraqis.” He bragged about murdering looters during Hurricane Katrina, though that was never substantiated.
What tends to happen when you’re good at your job is that you also come to enjoy it. In Kyle’s book, he admitted, “I love war.” He described killing as “fun.” He noted that “I couldn’t give a flying fuck about the Iraqis,” going on to explain that “I hate the damn savages.” But are the sacrifices of war still sacrifices when you enjoy them? Is heroism still heroism when you’re motivated by hatred?
The moral element of war’s theater—in Kyle’s book, and again as Cooper portrays Kyle in the film—is populated in his mind by good guys and bad guys, by superheroes and villains, by, essentially, cowboys and Indians. (At the Washington, D.C. premiere of the film this week, Bradley Cooper described the film not just as a character study, but also as a classic Western.) Just as foxholes have no atheists, battlefields are not places that tend to afford moral ambiguity.
“I don’t shoot people with Korans,” Kyle retorted to an Army investigator when he was accused of killing an Iraqi civilian. “I’d like to, but I don’t.”
Chris Kyle, a US navy Seal from Texas, was deployed to Iraq in 2003 and claimed to have killed more than 255 people during his six-year military career. In his memoir, Kyle reportedly described killing as “fun”, something he “loved”; he was unwavering in his belief that everyone he shot was a “bad guy”. “I hate the damn savages,” he wrote. “I couldn’t give a flying fuck about the Iraqis.” He bragged about murdering looters during Hurricane Katrina, though that was never substantiated.
What tends to happen when you’re good at your job is that you also come to enjoy it. In Kyle’s book, he admitted, “I love war.” He described killing as “fun.” He noted that “I couldn’t give a flying fuck about the Iraqis,” going on to explain that “I hate the damn savages.” But are the sacrifices of war still sacrifices when you enjoy them? Is heroism still heroism when you’re motivated by hatred?
The moral element of war’s theater—in Kyle’s book, and again as Cooper portrays Kyle in the film—is populated in his mind by good guys and bad guys, by superheroes and villains, by, essentially, cowboys and Indians. (At the Washington, D.C. premiere of the film this week, Bradley Cooper described the film not just as a character study, but also as a classic Western.) Just as foxholes have no atheists, battlefields are not places that tend to afford moral ambiguity.
“I don’t shoot people with Korans,” Kyle retorted to an Army investigator when he was accused of killing an Iraqi civilian. “I’d like to, but I don’t.”
Were you aware of FOX’s reluctance to cast Gillian?
"That’s overblown. You look at Gillian, and she’s a beautiful woman. And how often do you see Scully in a bathing suit? Gillian’s not six feet tall and doesn’t have what’s-her-face’s tits, but she’s got as nice a face as any of them. Maybe they thought she’s not tall enough or not Pamela Anderson enough."
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