Indonesia has ordered a ban on popular video-sharing website Vimeo after accusing it of hosting pornographic content, sparking social media fury on Tuesday.
The communications ministry announced that the US-based site would be blocked following the discovery of Vimeo pages with names such as “Art of Nakedness” and “Nudie Cutie”, featuring naked and scantily-clad women.
“We have recently received reports from the public about websites carrying negative and pornographic content… One of them is the site Vimeo.com,” said the ministry in a statement published late Monday.
The ministry, headed by Communications Minister Tifatul Sembiring who has waged a campaign against illicit material on the Internet, said that Vimeo had been added to a list of 119 other sites banned over content deemed pornographic.
Vimeo said on its Twitter account that the site was “blocked for some Indonesian users, but it’s on the Indonesian side and we can’t unblock it”.