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Malaysia to redirect DNS traffic to ISP DNS servers (thesun.my)

submitted 1 month ago by tun@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] refalo@programming.dev 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Well, time to teach Malaysians about DNS and anarchy then