[OFF TOPIC] Politics Thread

[Vic Liu 1,687]

  On 7/15/2022 at 5:45 PM, Monzanator said:

Business as usual in US politics restored. Joe Biden can stop pretending they don't need Saudi Arabia oil and human rights are more important or whatever

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-62173934

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World leaders are busy gesturing making effort to control the inflation, ease the energy crises, taking care of the food supply chain blah, blah. All these meaningless meetings, dialogues, photos or diplomatic breaking throughs just want voters not to focus on the crises itself, in stead, to focus on some superficial efforts. For sure, USA don't hope the crisis, namely the ongoing war, end soon before Russia is weaken. As long as giving money and weapons whenever Ukraine is running out, US could control the pace of the war. It happens in Europe after all.

[Griff88 1,971]

In an attempt to further "control" the internet, Indonesian government are forcing digital service providers to register on government database (and give government even more rights to order removal of any contents they don't like) and threaten to block basically everything on the Internet if they didn't comply 20 July.

 

The definition of "digital service providers" in this messed-up regulation is a person/entity who owns a system that includes payment/transaction or process personal information. Millions of websites obviously fall in this category and basically the government is demanding the whole net to register. So if @Sindodoesn't register to the Information Ministry by 20 July, this forum will be blocked in Indonesia

 

Of course this is clearly a scare tactic in hopes of extorting tax from foreign tech giants and has always been proposed by the stupid minister for the last 2 years, but this is the first time they actually set a deadline. Interesting to see what will happen in 4 days

 

So far only two popular international services have registered: Tiktok and Spotify.

[Sindo 1,516]

  On 7/16/2022 at 8:33 AM, Griff88 said:

So if @Sindodoesn't register to the Information Ministry by 20 July, this forum will be blocked in Indonesia

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And what should I do to register the website?

[Griff88 1,971]

  On 7/16/2022 at 8:38 AM, Sindo said:

And what should I do to register the website?

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Since you are a foreigner, they're asking you to appoint some Indonesian - naturally it would be me  - to do the paperwork instead.

 

But I don't think they even know Totallympics exists in the first place, so just rest assured

[dcro 10,210]

  On 7/16/2022 at 8:33 AM, Griff88 said:

So far only two popular international services have registered: Tiktok and Spotify.

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Totallympics could make the mainstream news cycle should they become 3rd.

[George_D 1,206]

Italy is heading for early elections??

[heywoodu 15,353]

 

 

That's nearly 400 people who might as well hand in their badges and weapons immediately, since they are not at all worthy of carrying them.

[Griff88 1,971]

  On 7/16/2022 at 8:33 AM, Griff88 said:

In an attempt to further "control" the internet, Indonesian government are forcing digital service providers to register on government database (and give government even more rights to order removal of any contents they don't like) and threaten to block basically everything on the Internet if they didn't comply 20 July.

 

So far only two popular international services have registered: Tiktok and Spotify.

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A small update:

In the end most of the big social media registered... Notable non-registered sites/companies/app included Bing, Steam, Yahoo, and PayPal.

 

Then what happened to them? Well, 2 days after the deadline the government then decided to extend the deadline to 27 July. Funnily enough there is also a press conference where a Ministry of Information representative said there will be no tolerance, threatening to block the big companies (at that time Twitter and WhatsApp was included) and basically warned Indonesia will replace them with local apps just like China

[konig 1,510]

In Argentina, in this year we suffer a devaluation of our currency value (argentinian peso) of the 50%, and we dont see it will stop........

 

How i hate our comunist goverment.....my god.

[NearPup 3,250]

Hey y’all, turns out Orbán is sort of racist.

 

https://www.foxnews.com/world/hungarian-pm-european-countries-race-mixing-longer-nations.amp

 

I think it’s only fair for the IOC to take back all of Hungary’s short track medals given that the Hungarian short track team is not *really* Hungarian, but more a post Hungarian team where whites and “the others” co-exist.