Indonesia has blocked entry to Elon Musk’s rebranding of Twitter, X.com, over porn and playing issues.

According to the Ministry of Communications and Informatics, the area identify had beforehand been used for “negative content” like playing or porn. However, the ministry is at present involved with the corporate to substantiate the rebranding’s objective.

Around 24 million Indonesian Twitter customers will be unable to entry the positioning till the block is eliminated, at the very least not with out utilizing a VPN. It isn't clear how lengthy the positioning shall be blocked.

Indonesia has extremely restrictive legal guidelines on what residents can entry via the web. Last 12 months, authorities threatened to dam Google, Netflix, Twitter and extra if the businesses couldn't element to the ministry that their websites weren't pornographic or unfavourable. All websites prevented the ban.

The block comes after Mr. Musk’s choice to rebrand Twitter as X this week. The transfer, he says, is step one in turning Twitter into an “everything app”  that shall be greater than only a social media app. He plans to make X right into a monetary powerhouse that may even deal with banking.

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