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by Bernice Low, Malaysia


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Why is TM Net blocking access to Malaysia-Today? Answer: On MCMC orders.

If you've tried to log into Malaysia-Today.net, you will see this.

Malaysiakini.com has the story that ISP TMNet was under orders to block the DNS of Malaysia-Today.net on the basis that

It is being blocked because we found that some of the comments on the
website were insensitive, bordering on incitement, - Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) chief operating officer Mohamed Sharil Tarmizi quoted by Malaysiakini.

According to various blog sources, the original malaysia-today.net URL remains accessible only via ISPs Time, Jaring and Maxis (watch for those to go down soon).

Malaysia Today's Administrators have set up a blog on Livejournal to keep Malaysians updated in the event that MToday is hacked or blocked. Its administrator has posted this singular message:

As of 26th August 2008 @ 8.20PM, if you are having trouble accessing Malaysia-Today.net please use:-

http://mt.harapanmalaysia.com/2008

More to be added soon. Help spread the word!

This will be a temporary site. TMNet Streamyx is blocking http://Malaysia-Today.net on their service-level. Please check back
here if you are unable to view MT and in case the alternative site is
inaccessible.

An additional comment at the bottom of the page adds another fix:
Please be informed that TM is blocking access to Malaysia Today
(www.malaysia-today.net) via its DNS servers. To overcome this problem,
you need to define your primary DNS server as 208.67.222.222 and
secondary server 202.188.0.133 208.67.220.220 either on your router or your
PC/notebook. This will beat the blockage.
Updated: You can also type the IP address of Malaysia-Today.com directly into your browser URL - 117.120.1.155. (thanks to reader Pakac Luteb)


Kindly do all Malaysians, living in Malaysia and overseas, a favor, and let them know where to point their browsers.

This is a grim development indeed.

Malaysianinsider.com carries a story that the government is planning to target the blogosphere next.

Is this a sign of things and times to come for Malaysians and the alternative media?



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liewcf says...
what a bad bad idea... anyway, here is the workaround: bit.ly...

 
 
BrendanOng says...
我把liewcf提供的方法翻译成中文了,想看中文的欢迎到

www.iamshin.com...


(发表时忘了改链接名,所以链接看来常常、怪怪的=.=!)

 
 
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About Bernice Low

Bernice Low is a screenwriter and pen-for-hire. At age 11 (in the era of BB--Before Blog) Bernice started her own newspaper, the Daily Jelly. It lasted two days before she was stopped from using school newsprint supplies for frivolous activities. She loves Cartoon Network's Bill and Mandy, has a thing for TV doctors House and MacDreamy, and is the proud owner of a 32-inch flat-screen TV. She believes diamonds and iPods are a girl's best friend. Her blog is her latest guilty pleasure.

 
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