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Musk’s Twitter Rebrand as ‘X’ Gets Site Blocked Under Indonesia Porn Laws

The Daily Beast

By Dan Ladden-Hall

July 26, 2023

Elon Musk’s radical rebranding of Twitter as “X” led to the site being blocked in Indonesia on Tuesday under the country’s strict laws restricting pornography and gambling.

The Southeast Asian country’s Ministry of Communication and Informatics said the block had to do with the domain “X.com,” which had previously been used to host content that violated the Muslim-majority nation’s laws against “negative” material like adult content, according to Al Jazeera.

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