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.
How is this different from US ISP bootstrapping peasant grade internet?
The sun will run this headline for Malaysia but nobody run these headlines for the US.
I wonder why
Edit: if you are going to downvote at least explain if you got a counter point, otherwise it seems y’all just butthurt haha
Yes. The US is also authoritarian. Yes, there is a clear media bias when it comes to the headlines that western media outlets are willing to run. In particular, paining non-western countries as more authoritarian than the US (which is sometimes true).
It’s valuable to point this out. Dog knows the shitty media bias bots used in other communities won’t.
However, the overall tone of your comment seems to suggest that it’s okay for non-western governments to do authoritarian bullshit, just because the US does. I trust that wasn’t the point of your comment, but I assume that’s why some may not take kindly to it.
For what it’s worth: my instance disables down votes, so I literally can’t down vote posts I disagree with.
As an American I found it clown to see UK sun run this trash when my own ISP is doing something similar and took me extensive research to figure wtf was going on few years back.
I don’t support some clowns in Malaysia doing their but it doesn’t matter to me, what matters to be is that 1) my corpo daddy is colluding with daddy Sam to do do it; and 2) my fake news would never run such a headline.
Point of my post is to educate mostly US and western audiences that our dearest regimes are doing this to do today.
Tone is an artistic touch, it is provocative maybe it will get people going and start asking questions.
It is only shot post so I understand why people would push back and that’s good, conversion is being had on the topic.
Wtf are you on about?
DNS bootstrapping?
Okay.
So basically you are getting downvoted because your comment is irrelevant 'Murica bashing.
Now you know.
My internet being bootstrapped by ISP is very much relevant especially considering that most of Lemmy is US based and likely doesn’t know what their ISP does
But thanks for being honest
Seriously, what does “bootstrapped” mean in this context?
ISP will hijack unencrypted DNS request made by your router for your “safety”
In practice they log your DNS queries and sell this data.
Okay that I’m aware of but I’ve never heard of it referred to as “bootstrapping”. Thanks for the explanation.