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  • Indonesia Doesn’t Want You Watching Porn During Ramadan

    Muslims around the world start fasting today as Ramadan begins. The holiest event on the Islamic calendar will see Muslims around the world fasting and praying in accordance with their faith. It seems that Indonesia is taking the holy month a bit too far this year by blocking access to more than one million porn sites.

    Indonesia’s Communications And Information Industry has blocked more than one million porn sites on Wednesday ahead of the start of Ramadan. It makes sense in a way as sexual relations are prohibited during the day, but whether or not porn can be classified as sexual relations is a question I can’t answer. Regardless, Minister Tifatul Sembiring said that the country would target more Web sites as the month went on according to The Times of India.

    “We will block more porn sites during Ramadan, though that doesn’t mean that we will allow such sites to operate during the rest of the year. Online pornography is an industry and the producers always seem to find new ways of escaping detection.”

    Indonesia is not the first, nor will it be the last, nation that has come out against online porn. While Indonesia is blocking the sites for religious reasons, other countries block them for something far simpler – protecting the children from something they’re going to find anyway. The United Kingdom wants all ISPs to block porn by default with those wanting access being forced to ask permission.

    As we’ve seen with any other attempt to censor the Internet, people will just get around it anyway. The truly devout Muslims wouldn’t be viewing porn sites anyway, so who exactly does this ban target?

  • Wealthy Socialite Arrested on Child Pornography Charges

    Erika Susan Perdue, a 41 year-old Texas socialite who lives in a $1.4 million home right across the street from a playground, was arrested for sending, receiving and possessing child pornography. According to the NY Daily News, Perdue has been selling such material for almost 12 years. So exhaustive is her collection of child-related pornography that she’s forgotten where the vast majority of it came from, though it would appear that they have been collected from all over the country.

    The FBI began investigating Perdue back in January after authorities discovered that she was transmitting images and videos of adults engaging in sexual acts with children to other people online. The Texas housewife is thought to have sold the items in question during the day, while her husband, an attorney, was away at work. Reports indiciate that she has been peddling child pornography on the side since 1999.

    Agents raided Perdue’s home on April 10th, during which they seized a computer and a hard drive containing the offending material, including images of adults having sex with toddlers.

    Child advocates, meanwhile, are a little taken aback by the fact that this particular predator was, in fact, a woman.

    “It’s not as common,” explained Catherine Smit-Torrez, who has spent over 20 years investigating such cases. “Women don’t have as much interest in child pornography. Generally, we don’t see a lot of that. There are some women who have fascination with different sexes and different age groups. A woman is supposed to be considered a mother who’s nurturing, not someone who is selling images that can literally destroy a child’s life.”

    Right now, it’s unclear if Perdue made any money from the sale of such material. Her trial date is currently set for September 10th.