Hacker News with Generative AI: Malaysia

Malaysia's plan to block overseas DNS dies after a day (theregister.com)
Malaysia's telecom regulator has abandoned a plan to block overseas DNS services a day after announcing it, following a sharp backlash and accusations of government overreach.

Internet Censorship, Malaysia, Politics

6 points by janandonly 72 days ago | 0 comments

Malaysia backtracks on DNS redirection decision (thesun.my)
KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) has been asked not to proceed with its directive requiring all internet service providers (ISPs) in Malaysia to implement Domain Name System (DNS) redirection.

Malaysia, Internet Regulation, DNS, Censorship

86 points by yen223 74 days ago | 44 comments

Malaysia started mandating ISPs to redirect DNS queries to local servers (thesun.my)
**KUALA LUMPUR:** 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.

Internet, Malaysia, Government Regulation, Censorship, DNS

328 points by uzyn 75 days ago | 402 comments

Malaysian ISPs Hijack Cloudflare/Google DNS Requests (torrentfreak.com)

Internet Security, DNS, Malaysia, ISPs

18 points by lcof 105 days ago | 1 comments

Malaysia is working on an internet 'kill switch', says minister (theregister.com)

Malaysia, Internet Censorship, Government, Technology, Politics

8 points by peutetre 112 days ago | 0 comments

Malaysia asks Microsoft, CrowdStrike to consider covering losses from outage (reuters.com)