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

submitted 2 months 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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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 42 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 months ago

That's the next step: drop all encrypted traffic.