Indonesia Update

Good news of sorts for Indonesia. The government has backed down on blocking YouTube and MySpace in order to protect its citizens' delicate little eyes from seeing Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders' (seen here mocking Indonesia) anti-Islam short film Fitna. Citing an outpouring of complaints from Internet users (in other words, the whole country), they've instead focused their attention on blocking individual sites that might host the film. Still censorship, but at least the government now knows it can't get in the way of Indonesians and their grainy videos of teenagers hitting each other with chairs. Also, it will be nearly impossible to block each site, so the motion is pretty much moot. Another nail in the coffin of fascist policies in the name of not offending murderous fundamentalists. Now if only we could get an anti-Islam film of a little better quality than Wilders'. Perhaps one that doesn't bore us to death while telling us things we already know. More details here.