Indonesia bans search engine DuckDuckGo on gambling, pornography concerns
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Re: Indonesia bans search engine DuckDuckGo on gambling, pornography concerns
#2I checked out a WiFi hotspot from a library recently and was surprised to find that they blocked DDG. (Was less surprised to see they blocked Reddit.)
Isn’t it just using the Bing API?
Re: Indonesia bans search engine DuckDuckGo on gambling, pornography concerns
#3I checked out a WiFi hotspot from a library recently and was surprised to find that they blocked DDG. (Was less surprised to see they blocked Reddit.) Isn’t it just using the Bing API?
It also proxies images, which I think is the actual reason (sic). So there is no way from a network point of view to disallow pornographic material on public access terminals. Though, I have not recently looked at how the other search engines do it.
As a long time DDG user, the image filter isn't perfect and occasionally I'll see NSFW images even when I have safe search on.
Re: Indonesia bans search engine DuckDuckGo on gambling, pornography concerns
#41.5 percent of GDP in online gambling is crazy right?
is it really that bad?
Re: Indonesia bans search engine DuckDuckGo on gambling, pornography concerns
#5Curiously, this is both one of the best possible ads for DuckDuckGo, and one of the best possible ads for Indonesia's gambling ban (1.5% of GDP is bonkers.)
One could argue that if they had more access to pornography, maybe they wouldn't gamble so much...
Re: Indonesia bans search engine DuckDuckGo on gambling, pornography concerns
#61.5 percent of GDP in online gambling is crazy right? is it really that bad?
Could be a way to launder money into other countries?
Re: Indonesia bans search engine DuckDuckGo on gambling, pornography concerns
#7As an Indonesian resident and a long time DDG user this is immensely frustrating.
It seems to me that internet censorship is becoming more and more pervasive globally and whilst there can be legitimate reasons (eg: CSAM) blocking a search engine like DDG is a massive over-reach. Unfortunately, most Indonesians won't notice as they happily let Google, Meta et al track everything and everyone and are unlikely to be using DDG.
Re: Indonesia bans search engine DuckDuckGo on gambling, pornography concerns
#8For online gambling, why not just tax the stuff?
India pulls in 30% of any player's winnings as tax, for example. The gaming companies also have to pay 28% of their revenue (yes, revenue, not income).
Re: Indonesia bans search engine DuckDuckGo on gambling, pornography concerns
#91.5 percent of GDP in online gambling is crazy right? is it really that bad?
is it counting cryptocurrency?
Re: Indonesia bans search engine DuckDuckGo on gambling, pornography concerns
#10Weird. In the UAE DDG has stopped returning international results for those kinds of queries.