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Indonesia bans search engine DuckDuckGo on gambling, pornography concerns

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Indonesia bans search engine DuckDuckGo on gambling, pornography concerns

Indonesia has announced the ban of DuckDuckGo, a privacy-focused search engine, citing concerns over its potential use to access illegal websites hosting pornography and online gambling. The country has strict regulations prohibiting the sharing of obscene content online, with platforms like Reddit and Vimeo already blocked. Indonesian officials claimed that DuckDuckGo was blocked due to numerous complaints about its search results containing explicit and gambling-related content. The Pennsylvania-based search engine has not responded to the ban yet, and the government did not specify how DuckDuckGo differs from other search engines. Indonesia has been actively cracking down on online gambling despite its popularity in the country.

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