Why is this ban worrying? Simple.

It starts as "combat against internet piracy. During this period, the government will attempt to "condition" the people that censorship is a good thing. Eventually, due to abuse of power, and due to not being questioned by the public over their actions, they'll start censoring the websites which they claim is 'detrimental' to national security, based on their convenience.

Hence why I said, it usually starts with the excuse of piracy. It'll eventually end up with censoring for national security.

Censor hammers!

Don't forget who are the people who won the Blu-Ray battle.

That's only when they block using DNS blocking. Not ip blocking.

Its the government's website la.

You think what? Got your name, IC number and phone numbers there ah?

Remember this. Corporate fellas who are attacking consumer piracy are the same bunch of douches-bags who practice corporate piracy.

However, the issue here isn't piracy. The issue here is censorship. When the government has the power to censor or control, it will by nature refuse to give up that power.

It doesn't matter what initiated it. Censorship is something most governments have been trying to implement but implementing them would cause an uproar among the people.

Thus, they dare not touch it. So, they resort to subtle censorship. It starts with websites that give them an excuse to ban, and slowly, the list will grow into things that the government feels the need to conveniently censor, since by definition, websites that face censorship, is ambiguous, the government takes advantage of this.

It starts small, we may end up with China's Green Dam project.

I am already on OpenDNS. Tried a few, this loads youtube the fastest for me.

Exactly. Doesn't matter what they censor, the point is, they are censoring. Power to determine what people see and don't see is too much for politicians to handle. Its an individual belief and right to decide what's good and what's bad for themselves.

21st century shall be the century of transparency and individual freedom. Its the end of the destructive conservative mindset.

Say what?

Malaysia Thurday la.

I hope all the corporate zealots reaping mass profits and bullshitting the public about how much losses they are incurring while their companies pay them 6 figure salaries and rake in 7 figure profits but refuse provide salary increment to their employees. SELFISH COWS.

By becoming a staff.

That one is SKMM. Not hacker la.

Sidang Kelentong Multimedia Malaysia.

Epic concept.

The internet people have spoken. Now the real people shall pay the price.

Anything yet?

Are we there yet?

Did somebody feel that? Like tremors........