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I was shocked when I heard some websites were blocked by Indonesian government. The websites were MySpace, Multiply, and YouTube. Aday said that RapidShare would be blocked too. I don’t know exactly what is the reason for that. Is it for preventing distribution of FITNA, a movie that triggers chaos in some countries? Or is it for protecting public from pornography contents on the net?

If the reasons I mentioned are true, so it should have a good purpose, right? But, even the purpose is right, doesn’t mean you can do any thing to reach the goal. Blocking those websites is not the only choice. For analogy, there is a rat in my house. You know that a rat carries diseases for human. You just can’t burn my house to protect me infected by diseases. All you have to do is catch the rat and kill or dump it. So, for preventing bad effects of internet, especially pornography, you can’t block websites which are irrelevant with the problems.

Internet is important for everyone at this moment. We can get all information from around the world by connecting to Internet. Is it any possibility to block all websites in the future because of this problem? My friend, Okto, said, “Why don’t block search engines too?” Please, don’t be so ridiculous. Do the government want to back to ancient time without any information from outside? Like old China did in the past?

Please, don’t blame the tool (Internet). The true problem is inside everyone. Why don’t the government give a warning or punishment for those people who distribute bad contents on the Web? Or maybe ask the website’s owners to delete bad contents from their websites? I think it is a win-win solution and a better way for all.

I believe the government concerns about its people and the nation’s future. And I’m sure this blocking is for good purpose. But, we can’t do any thing necesseary to create such an ideal condition without thinking its effects for other people. If there are some people harmed or damaged or suffered by this decision and those people are not guilty, can we say it is a good decision? MySpace and Multiply are social network websites. There are many people registered and not all of them distribute bad contents. So, please, don’t think so easily.

To create an ideal condition or reach a goal, it needs a lot of works and a long process. It is also hard to do. But, don’t you think it is worthed to do and very meaningful? So, let’s protect ourselves from bad effects of Internet with the right way: make the internet useful and give advantages for us!