Indonesia, TikTok's best market, bans social commerce

Indonesia, the world's fourth-most-populous country, has decided to ban social commerce – the practice of embedding e-commerce facilities in social media platforms. The nation's trade ministry on Tuesday published regulations that limit social media to promoting goods and services and barring them from accepting payments. …

[Pascal Monett]

This is not easy

It must be very difficult to juggle between what the public wants, what the country needs and what the big players do to extract maximum attention from their users.

I think this is a good move, one that should be replicated elsewhere. After all, Big Phone was broken for anti-monopoly reasons (even though that didn't really work out in the end), and today's "platforms" are basically trying to do the same thing, be everything.

They shouldn't.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: This is not easy

Unfortunately there is likely to be regime change in Indonesia as the current president has reached the maximum term. So what happens will be determined based on external as much as internal politics.

https://www.mintpressnews.com/leak-cia-ned-color-revolution-coup-indonesia/285617/

[Anonymous Coward]

Great strategic move, to be honest.

[Tron]

Hmm.

So instead of clicking on 'Pay', you click on a 'Pay' link to somewhere else. The only difference there, is that fake/unofficial 'Pay' links make the system less secure and less resilient. It opens the system up to fraud, big time. It's like instead of paying on ebay, you have to click on a link and pay off ebay. If the link goes somewhere else, you might not realise it until it is too late. It is the sort of idea that politicians think is a big win, but anyone who designs software would flag as dumb as poop.