Censoring the Blackberry?

Early January, Blackberry users in Indonesia were cut from the possibility of viewing any sort of pornography on their Blackberry smart phones. Research in Motion (RIM) the Canadian brand in charge of the smart phone announced, "that it is blocking access to pornographic websites on its smartphones in Indonesia in response to the government’s demand" according to Reporters Without Borders.

The filtering and censoring of these websites stemmed from the Indonesian's government to block the use of pornography as well as monitoring Indonesian's usage of sites relevant. RIM was simply trying to comply with the governments new standards that were set out early January.

Despite the blocking, many are still trying to find filters or sites to bypass the government's attempt to ban pornography. But with new found rerouting techniques, there are fears of further for deprecating forms blocking from the RIM company to company with the governments needs.

In the end, the government has the last word as far as blocking pornography goes on the Blackberry smart phones.