The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) has instructed Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to redirect Domain Name Service (DNS) traffic that uses third-party DNS servers back to their own DNS servers
MCMC has blocked a total of 24,277 websites between between 2018 to Aug 1, classified into various categories, which are online gambling (39 per cent), pornography/obscene content (31 per cent), copyright infringement (14 per cent), other harmful sites (12 per cent), prostitution (two per cent) and unlawful investments/scams (two per cent).
“It has been falsely claimed that the measure undertaken by MCMC is a draconian measure. We reiterate that Malaysia’s implementation is for the protection of vulnerable groups from harmful online content.
Some time ago the Malaysian government denied access to Steam over one religious video game. Yes the whole platform over one game. So this looks like a case of the government being dumb as usual.
Good luck blocking DNS over https. Doing so would require a lot of work. It is sad to see countries going the authoritarian route. This is just the start and it will get worse.
Maybe Tor would be better
That’s the next step: drop all encrypted traffic.
It’s been cancelled for now
Canceled like Google Circles? Or canceled like Microsoft Recall?
Recall, because it’s definitely coming back.
Encrypted DNS traffic => oh noed, what now?
Believe it or not, straight to jail.
Gulag
It has been falsely claimed that the measure undertaken by MCMC is a draconian measure
While it may be unclear exactly what kind of Internet traffic laws Draco would’ve written, allowing only the major landowners to run DNS servers does seem to be in keeping with the spirit of “aiding and legitimizing the political power of the aristocracy and allowing them to consolidate their control of the land and poor” as his laws are said to have done.
It has been falsely claimed that the measure undertaken by MCMC is a draconian measure. We reiterate that Malaysia’s implementation is for the protection of vulnerable groups from harmful online content.
You don’t need to ban privacy reapecting DNS services to ban specific websites. It’s made just for spying.
Doesn’t DoH and DoT completely kill this?
These guys ever heard of Mozilla and good old ECH along with DoH? Just lol at these noobs.
And if the Malaysian government wants to try fucking with American tech they’ll get what’s coming for them
Actually they’re smarter than you… they know they don’t need to brainwash every single citizen, only the ones gullible enough to fall for it, which is the vast majority of the population.
Only even 5% of the world population has objectively good computer skills according to OECD.
