Indonesia Ends Ban on YouTube, MySpace, Asks Public for "Forgiveness"....

Yes, they actually asked for "forgiveness"......

JAKARTA–(UPDATE) Indonesia ended its blockade of websites carrying a controversial anti-Islam film and apologized to the public on Friday after a string of angry complaints and accusations of censorship.

Access was restored to YouTube, MySpace and other prominent sites by the country’s main Internet service providers, who barred them this week at the government’s request.

“Access to YouTube and several other sites has been re-opened after Internet providers received overwhelming protests from users,” Heru Nugroho, of the Indonesian Internet providers’ association, told AFP.

Indonesia’s communications minister Muhammad Nuh apologized for the blockade targeting the 17-minute “Fitna,” which splices images of terrorist attacks with quotes from the Koran and has provoked protests in several Muslim countries.

“I openly ask the public’s forgiveness for the inconvenience caused over the past few days by the blocking of sites,” Nuh told journalists on Friday.

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H/T:Creeping Sharia

Comments

[Elric66]

Im shocked they backed down

[Mullah Lodabullah]

I wonder how the Dutch people would have responded if their govt.
had bowed to Islamic pressure (and "hurt feelings") and banned Fitna.

[ZIP]

me too elric...

[Merrimac]

Elric, I'm not the slightest bit shocked: apparently, more people have accessed 'FITNA' via the Internet in Indonesia than in any other country in the world!