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Malaysia-Today down - Is this Malaysia's own Pentagon Papers? (Update 2)

Sep 18, 2009 15:59

Updated September 21 - 11pm - the site is functional. A little slow, but appears to be up to date.Unfortunately, the truth behind the situation (server glitch or something more sinister) seems to be elusive. In the bloggosphere, the implication is that an official block by the MCMC is in place. See entries at the Malaysian Media Matters blog and Melvin Mah's blog 'A Little Taffer's Room'. However, there is some argument that the block may have ended because the government has decided that it will go after the leaker of the documents as opposed to the publisher of the documents.

In the meantime, a mirror site has been set up here to counter the alleged block. In addition, the webmasters of Malaysia-Today have provided clear instructions on how to get around the alleged block using proxy servers.

The public holiday of Eid is making it extremely difficult to actually verify if there is any truth to the allegation that the MCMC is blocking access of M-Today. There is no official statement from the government that a block is in place and so far, there hasn't been any actual blog post I can find that explains how the block is taking place (indeed,one line of thinking is that the M-Today server is down rather than a block taking place). Clarification may only emerge post the Eid celebration.

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Update #1

18 September, 11.52pm - the site is back up but somewhat slow. At this point, allegations that the Malaysian Government or the Malaysia Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) blocked the site due to the appearance of classified Cabinet Papers on the site are not able to be verified (see the story at Malaysian Insider here), partly because we are on the eve of a major public holiday-weekend (Eid/Hari Raya).

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Original post:

The Malaysia-Today Web site is down. (image captured at 3.56pm, Malaysia time).

Is this because a set of controversial confidential Cabinet Papers were
published on the Web site by Raja Petra Kamaluddin (RPK)?Is this our very own Pentagon Papers?

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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.