Indonesia happy so far with BlackBerry porn filter

Playboy was among several websites that could not be accessed.

“Thank God,” Tifatul Sembiring, a conservative Muslim minister who has spearheaded filtering demands, wrote on his Twitter site. “Pornography has started to be blocked.”

“Please go ahead doing business, as long as laws are abided with.”

Last week, Indonesia threatened to revoke BlackBerry’s license to operate in the nation of 237 million unless it filtered out porn, jeopardizing a growing market that is already bringing the company more than $250 million per year.

The phone’s maker, Canadian-based Research in Motion Ltd., responded to the threat by saying it was “fully committed to working with Indonesia’s carriers to put in place a prompt, compliant filtering solution.”

It agreed to remove all pornographic content by Friday.

When users tried to access www.playboy.com on Thursday they got a message that said “this site cannot be accessed through this network because it contains pornographic material.”