Elon Musk’s Twitter rebrand got site blocked in Indonesia where X.com was once linked to porn, gambling, says report
- Elon Musk has rebranded Twitter as ‘X,’ using a new domain – X.com, caused issues in Indonesia, where users are unable to access X.com, per Al Jazeera
- The government said the domain had been used by websites that didn’t adhere to its regulations
Elon Musk announced on Sunday that the domain X.com, which he previously used for PayPal, had started redirecting users to Twitter.
But according to Al Jazeera, millions of Indonesians were subsequently unable to access the social media platform due to the country’s strict rules that aim to curb online pornography and gambling.
A screenshot shared by a Twitter user appears to show a page saying that the website had been blocked by Indonesia’s Ministry of Communication and Informatics for violating local laws and regulations.
The ministry told Al Jazeera that the X.com domain had previously been used by websites that did not adhere to the country’s regulations against “negative” content.
The ministry tends to block websites that are considered to be “offensive, criminal, or dangerous to social harmony,” Gatria Priyandita, a cyber policy analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, told Al Jazeera.
