{"id":2754,"date":"2013-07-04T23:48:31","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T04:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2754"},"modified":"2013-07-05T00:01:31","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T05:01:31","slug":"mcmc-policing-blcoks-6400-websites-since-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2013\/07\/04\/mcmc-policing-blcoks-6400-websites-since-2008","title":{"rendered":"MCMC policing blocks 6,400 websites since 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just read that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.malaysiakini.com\/news\/234837\">MCMC blocked 6,640 websites since 2008<\/a>. That&#8217;s an average of about 1,300 sites blocked a year. Reasons to get blocked:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>fake bank websites<\/li>\n<li>copyright infringement (I presume these are torrent search engines, MP3\/MP4 hosts, etc)<\/li>\n<li>pornography\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>insulting the royal institution<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have less issue with blocking fake bank websites; but rather than blocking them, they should be prosecuting them to shutdown. This is the same with sites infringing copyright &#8211; you get the content removed via a takedown notice, failing which you attempt to shut the site down. You don&#8217;t use resources to block the site.<\/p>\n<p>Now, what about pornography? Isn&#8217;t it bad enough you can&#8217;t pick up pornography at your friendly local magazine store? Malaysians seem to have an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalnewsasia.com\/media\/the-secret-sex-searches-of-malaysians-and-others\">appetite<\/a> for porn, and I wish they woke up to realise that this isn&#8217;t a bad thing. Its much worse to have an urge and rape your child\/sister\/in-law\/a stranger.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The royal institution &#8211; does the MCMC know how to draw a line between insults and discourse? Malaysian authority generally has no clue of the difference between disloyalty and dissent. There is no institution that is off bounds for questioning &#8211; all societies deserve the right to ask questions in an open fashion.<\/p>\n<p>Insults and slander on the Internet will not disrupt the political stability of the country. Insults and slander are published in mainstream media, by politicians, so I doubt the average Joe on the street is going to make a change. But if enough people start thinking and their minds start opening up, what it can do is impact a regime change. And remember, slander and defamation have their own laws that can be applied from the real world. Sedition needs to just go.<\/p>\n<p>Why do we pay the MCMC to police the Internet when really, the onus should be on the user? If I&#8217;m a concerned parent, I could install (and pay for &#8211; i.e. spur economies) software that filters my own connection.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A question no one has asked or received an answer for: Where is this complete list of 6,400 websites?<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20MCMC%20policing%20blocks%206%2C400%20websites%20since%202008&body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2013%2F07%2F04%2Fmcmc-policing-blcoks-6400-websites-since-2008&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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That&#8217;s an average of about 1,300 sites blocked a year. Reasons to get blocked: fake bank websites copyright infringement (I presume these are torrent search engines, MP3\/MP4 hosts, etc) pornography\u00a0 insulting the royal institution I have less issue with blocking fake bank websites; but rather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20MCMC%20policing%20blocks%206%2C400%20websites%20since%202008&body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2013%2F07%2F04%2Fmcmc-policing-blcoks-6400-websites-since-2008&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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