YouTube has begun restricting access to videos of an anti-Islamic film in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, a government official said on Sunday.”Google, which is YouTube’s parent company, emailed us on Thursday evening saying it had blocked Indonesia’s access to 16 URLs related to the videos on the site,” Communications and Information Ministry spokesman Gatot Dewa Broto told AFP.
“We understand it takes time for Google to block everything as people continue to upload those sensitive videos. We appreciate Google’s cooperation,” he said.
Broto said the government also wrote to Blackberry maker Research In Motion on Friday to filter the videos on its smartphones.
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