{"id":1004812,"date":"2026-04-25T11:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T05:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1004812"},"modified":"2026-04-25T11:38:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T06:08:35","slug":"under-blackout-threat-wikimedia-reaches-compromise-with-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/25\/under-blackout-threat-wikimedia-reaches-compromise-with-indonesia\/","title":{"rendered":"Under blackout threat, Wikimedia reaches compromise with Indonesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wikimedia Foundation said Saturday it has found a compromise with the Indonesian government, which had threatened to block Wikipedia over domestic registration rules the foundation feared were overly invasive.<\/p>\n<p>Under a 2020 regulation, all electronic system providers (PSEs) must register in Indonesia for what the government calls legal and user protection purposes before making their services available.<\/p>\n<p>Critics have pointed to a provision that requires registered PSEs to take down content deemed as &#8220;causing public unrest and disturbing public order&#8221; as a free speech restriction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wikimedia Foundation said Saturday it has found a compromise with the Indonesian government, which had threatened to block Wikipedia over domestic registration rules the foundation feared were overly invasive. Under a 2020 regulation, all electronic system providers (PSEs) must register in Indonesia for what the government calls legal and user protection purposes before making their services available. Critics have pointed to a provision that requires registered PSEs to take down content deemed as &#8220;causing public unrest and disturbing public order&#8221; as a free speech restriction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004813,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004812\/revisions\/1004813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}