As major technology companies fall in line with state licensing policies that grant the government sweeping cyber-surveillance powers, critics have raised concerns that such firms will find it easier to simply self-censor content and provide ready access to user data than to risk tangling with regulators in an opaque legal system.

Massively popular platforms such as Zoom, Twitter, Netflix, Spotify, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Google and YouTube have registered under the controversial licensing regime.

They were among some 200 foreign and 8,000 domestic private electronic services providers (ESPs) that registered with the Communications and Information Ministry before last week’s deadline.

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courtesy of THE JAKARTA POST

by Nur Janti (The Jakarta Post)

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