Re:PayPal and Steam are banned in Indonesia
by csomar on Saturday July 30, 2022 @12:05AM
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The number of registered services here disagree: https://kominfod.angelo.fyi
I'm actually surprised that many companies did comply...
What is there to disagree? Companies did sign up with Chinese shells etc too, but staying there is tricky as well.
This just shows they are happy enough to provide yet another government with a backdoor to your data. I'm not surprised, but disappointed for sure.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/02/indonesias-proposed-on...
Re:PayPal and Steam are banned in Indonesia
by pessimizer on Saturday July 30, 2022 @12:38AM
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The total number of non-Indonesian sites that registered was 282 according to this press release. Which means that every site in the world outside of Indonesia will be banned inside Indonesia (or every "platform" which probably includes every blog that takes comments) except for 282 sites, most of which seem to provide crucial infrastructure to websites in general i.e. Indonesian sites require them to operate.
Re:PayPal and Steam are banned in Indonesia
by duskwuff on Saturday July 30, 2022 @02:03AM
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Realistically, it's a lot less than 282 sites. There are a lot of mobile apps (mostly games, registered under Play Store URLs), and a lot of duplicates. There's almost nothing on the list that looks like infrastructure, TBH.
Though I'll give you one thing, I had to figure out microservices at a previous job because the regulation on Indonesian data was much more intense than usual. Had to keep the data in the country, as well as only process it in-country. The net effect was that the data went not just to the US (main cloud co), but also to China (AliCloud)... Not sure if that was a net benefit, didn't feel that way to me.