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Re:PayPal and Steam are banned in Indonesia by richardjam73 on Friday July 29, 2022 @11:54PM (#32284142)
The Indonesian government has a register of internet services that can operate in the country. If you are not in the register you are blocked in Indonesia. If you don't submit to any government requests they can kick you off the register. For instance if Twitter does not provide the government the details of a specific user then they can be blocked.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/02/indonesias-proposed-on...

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Re:PayPal and Steam are banned in Indonesia by sk0g on Friday July 29, 2022 @11:59PM (#32284174)
Oh I thought Australia was bad. Indonesia might as well just have permanent read-only access to the companies they allow, should the companies give in. I'm going to guess these rights will be abused big time for favours and corrupt government employees grabbing data for money. What wonderful times we live in.
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