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Malaysia to filter the Net?

(62 votes)

by Vijandren Ramadass

Saturday, 18 November 2006 05:48 PM

Updated Version : via Star Online

KUALA LUMPUR: Local telecommunication companies have been told to set up a filter system to block out online pornography by next year. Science, Technology and Innovations Minister Datuk Seri Dr Jamaluddin Jarjis said the non-profit system should be available nationwide to consumers soon.

He said he was informed that 3G handphones could be used to access online pornography. He added that the newly-formed Malaysian Cyber Security Centre (MCSC) and local telcos have been directed to crack down on online pornography. Dr Jamaluddin said the centre was expected to step up efforts to track down those producing and downloading pornography .

“The MCSC has the capability to track down those producing or downloading pornography. “It is just that we need to aggressively pursue this. Effective enforcement with the cooperation of parents, cyber cafes and traders is needed,” he said at a press conference at the 57th Umno general assembly.

Dr Jamaluddin said the MCSC would also launch a campaign on using the Internet positively and educate parents and the private sector on how to fight online pornography. “The prime culprits in the downloading of pornography are schoolchildren and undergraduates,” he noted.

LYN: There seems to be two possible outcomes from this directive. By setting up a non-profit system to filter porn, it would mean that an optional system would be introduced to filter out online porn, and it can be turned on (and off) by the end user. If this indeed is the aim of the system, then it would be welcomed with open arms all around. We'll have to take a wait and see approach and update this story when more details are revealed about this system.

We're wondering how some telcos might use this to their advantage. Before this it was 20% of our users use 90% of our bandwidth for P2P downloads. Next up, 90% of P2P downloads are found to be pornography, so we have to filter and block all P2P traffic to curb online porn. If that happens, remember you heard it here first!

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Unconfirmed reports are coming through that the Government has instructed the Malaysian Cyber Security Center and local Telco's to put a stop to online pornography, and a filtering system will be implemented next year.

We are not going to speculate more on this issue until we get confirmation of the story. We'll keep you updated when we know more.

[ via Star SMS newsalert ] [ MSC Bill of Guarantees ]

Comments

Name: Mike

Comment:
That's all show off!...

They are not doing something against porn, what message I got from this government by this law is;

Don't watch porn; just do it!!!

95% of hotels selling womens; I know this how come government doesn't know. If you go in branch roads at night almost every road you can see womens and shemales selling their bodies. Massage centers & health centers 99% of them doing this. Even at noon time people selling porn dvds on streets.

Actually in Malaysia no need to learn porn on internet, just look around.

As I said this is all show off. If you really against porn; first start cleaning up streets.

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Name: DDD	Comment: gosh no more porn no porn = no live
Rated Article: Posted: 2006-12-12 03:36:42

Name: HOTDOG1101	Comment: how about media search tools like limewire or bittorent do their filter that as well?
Rated Article: Posted: 2006-12-04 11:54:41

Name: Moogle

Comment:
http://psiphon.civisec.org./

Canada Develops Software To Bypass Firewalls

Canadian university researchers have developed software that allows people that live in countries that limit internet access to surf the web without restrictions. The program will be a free download and available Friday.

The Psiphon program, developed by computer experts at the University of Toronto, allows an Internet user in a country with no online curbs to set up an account for someone in a country that censors Web content, and that person can then surf the net without restrictions.

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Posted: 2006-11-29 19:21:59
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Name: Exy

Comment:
I just hope the system is optional; and if it isn't I hope it's set up properly. 60% of the websites I go to (though non-pornographic in nature) have pr0n banners floating around them - if I lose access to 60% of my websites simply because of 1 stupid banner, I'm moving to Singapore. Lol, in a democratic society; the internet should be kept as a public and unfiltered network. Filtering should be client-sided. If they do start cracking down on people which access pr0n, we're going to see alot of our Msians (including highschool teens) in court - and an outburst of SSL HTTP proxy usage.

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Posted: 2006-11-26 09:27:05
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Name: LOL	Comment: Like your reasoning people. First porn, then what ? I mean, hey, public sex is already against the law. Bad isn't it ? if they ban public sex and don't allow people to walk around naked, what will they ban next ?
Rated Article: Posted: 2006-11-24 10:45:51

Name: Hasan	Comment: Following the path of China...
Rated Article: Posted: 2006-11-23 23:29:54

Name: peace	Comment: Ha.. ha..Maybe we all have to get married or find many girlfriend. Too much porn or freely available also bad for ourself and others. Hope by this, there will less sex maniac amongs us.
Rated Article: Posted: 2006-11-22 09:27:12

Name: RAMChYLD

Comment:
> its ok la .. i oso dont want my child easyily
> access pornography. for sure cannot block all
> maa..
Client end blocking laa. Like US. If u don't want your child to see pr0n, get net nanny or something. Not everyone likes being controlled, and they might actually have a reason to access pr0n.

I admit, I don't see pr0n myself, but like many others I scared that government actually end Internet freedom, or even censor things they deem "inappropriate" (i.e. Miss Piggy from Muppets. I remember one time one stupid channel "censor" one particular show and erase all the pigs from the show). I dun want to be told I cannot access a website just because it is about Miss Piggy.

Blocking P2P is bad oso. Some Linux distro only available through BitTorrent.

Yes, I remember PM's promise to not censor the net oso. Contradictive, I agree.

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Posted: 2006-11-22 09:19:53
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Name: Flying Dutchman	Comment: "filter and block all P2P traffic to curb online porn."??? I'm about to loose the best Internet source for information to educate myself ... and no ... it's not "sexual education".Now I'll have a 2MB line just to check mail???? I think i'll be planning my return trip to Holland sooner than expected.
Rated Article: Posted: 2006-11-21 23:43:59

Name: Dante	Comment: Well I don't care if they block porn, but blocking all P2P traffic, that damn bad man Like that harder to download stuff
Rated Article: Posted: 2006-11-21 22:56:50

Name: Joe

Comment:
There is a saying "I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend your right to say it"

This is not about porn. This is about someone deciding what I can or cannot see, what I can or cannot do. This is about losing the freedom to do so.

I am opposed to this because it sets a bad precedence. As many have asked, what comes next? Opposition websites? Blogs? All email will be scanned and filtered? Someone tapping your phone at the main exchange?

All opinions contrary to what "big brother" likes will ultimately disappear.

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Posted: 2006-11-21 16:20:31
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Name: Anon	Comment: Why need to block? We all can press ALt+F4 to block the porn sites already. lol
Rated Article: Posted: 2006-11-21 13:52:41

Name: seraphangel

Comment:
I believe the issue here is not just porn, it's the filtering system, everyone here is concerned about the other things that our so enlightened government will be filtering out next after they've done with porn, besides dare you say you never watched porn before? everything has adverse effects, it's how you put it to use that's important. including porn. besides, we as adults should have the freedom to filter our own content, for ourselves and for our kids, or would it be more fun to be told what to do just like when you were a kid and immature? impose more silly compulsory filters and there goes our freedom, that's the point everyone is pointing out here, we're not promoting porn by any means mind you.

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Posted: 2006-11-21 12:43:50
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Name: Darren	Comment: 90% of users use internet to web browse whilst 10% of others use it to check emails... Lets filter out http protocol
Rated Article: Posted: 2006-11-21 12:17:32

Name: Durian

Comment:
OK, so there goes the promise of not censoring the Net. Not only Mahathir is pissed off at farmer Abdullah, now I am very pissed off at him too.

This is just the begining. Filtering porn is just a good pretext to test out the viability and effectiveness of the filtering systems.

The real target would be free speech on the Internet. Malaysiakini and the likes will be subject to the block because they 'contain pornographic materials' - someone used the word 'sex' in one of the forums there.

This is not good - we know how covert government and politicians work.

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Posted: 2006-11-21 10:39:06
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Name: Malaysian	Comment: Yup after doing this the PM says this http://thestar.com.my/umno/story.asp?file=/2006/11/16/umno/16035115&sec=umno (he wants freer media) A bit contradictive no?
Rated Article: Posted: 2006-11-21 09:34:39

Name: porn-h8er

Comment:
Contrary to most of U here.... I feel that the net must be filtered. Porn is bad. REALLY BAD !

BTW.. how come there's soo many idiots here claiming that no porn means -> women get screwed ?

It's porn that drives those rapists !! Why ? Don't believe me huh? Read the damn news paper la... and those article (regarding rapists) by indipendent researcher ! Google the web ! ..don't just google for porn !

Curse you PORN !!!

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Posted: 2006-11-21 00:16:21
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Name: Maverick	Comment: I wonder if any TM Nut or government ppl are seeing all these comments, this is good stuff, I've already forwarded this news to my e-mailing list...lol. Malaysia...mana pegi???
Rated Article: Posted: 2006-11-20 18:29:22

Name: ikuwara	Comment: They are bullying "these digital immigrants"!!!
Rated Article: Posted: 2006-11-20 14:20:40

Name: Uncle Jim	Comment: Father: LOL! Porn is not sex ed. Did you have to watch one before you knew where to put what? All things said, I love pr0n. Better speed up those d/l before they pull the plug.
Rated Article: Posted: 2006-11-20 12:32:27

Name: Annoynymous	Comment: Omg this is great, what they will block next? Online blog? Online forum board? Lowyat.net for discussion about politic/critics?
Rated Article: Posted: 2006-11-20 11:36:12

Name: seraphangel

Comment:
next they will start filtering sms for any 'intimate' messages, then phone conversations for 'intimate' conversations, then they open every bloody snail mail sent to filter out 'intimate' letters.filtering porn is all fine and dandy, but not as a compulsory system for mature citizens, but for kids and under aged citizens, the internet is nothing if all we can surf are government websites and educational websites and other websites so deemed 'appropriate' by the so called 'higher intellect' of the country, and I agree with the saying, the more you cage the beast, the more the beast fights back.

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Posted: 2006-11-20 10:37:50
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Name: the truth is elsewhere	Comment: this country seems to be adopting the big brother program which watches over everything/everywhere we do/go. zzzz legal voyeur ...
Rated Article: Posted: 2006-11-20 10:05:38

Name: jj	Comment: im just wondering if they can better spend their time and money in increasing online penetration rate instead of blocking porn. sigh....
Rated Article: Posted: 2006-11-20 09:16:57

Name: kekasih

Comment:
lor... thats not the rite things they do!.. even they filter it! customer will faces the same thing soon.. the main problem here is malaysia communication infrastuctor !can u all think, how old ur home phone cable are?.. that will make the connection not be able to dedicate great servis n thats why every prob come from communication servicce will settled with "best effort" phrase!hahah

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Posted: 2006-11-20 08:22:26
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Name: Malcontent	Comment: First, it's porn. Then it's opposition websites.
Rated Article: Posted: 2006-11-20 00:37:32

Name: Father

Comment:
Those people who come out with those rules must be physically and metality problem.
You think if the entire world without sex or sex education, how can you be here?
if sex teached openly in school than you can do that (block online porn).
but most of the people in the world learn sex education from porn movie.
so if they are disagree of online porn, as i said "They must be some mentality or physically problem"

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Posted: 2006-11-19 23:35:18
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Name: someone who watch porn	Comment: well i think those underage kids should not watch porn but dude i am 20 so wtf? no sexual plesure or whatever you call that for is utterly unacceptable so now i have to go to chow kit road huh? k fine then ~_~
Rated Article: Posted: 2006-11-19 23:19:01

Name: r	Comment: this is jst ridicolous.... dun think it will b jst porn.... sth is underlying all this...... stupid Government....
Rated Article: Posted: 2006-11-19 21:44:42

Name: Who gives a damn	Comment: The Filtering already started on P2P. What freedom do we have left? Speech? Liberty? U name it, they take it away in the name of our own safety & protection. Foo-ey
Rated Article: Posted: 2006-11-19 21:38:13

Name: ikuwara

Comment:
It's getting worse and hopeless if compare to other developing country. So it means I must use bicycle to go to work from next year onwards as Malaysia will become Stone age nation. They are bullying "these digital immigrants"...

So how about MSC Bil Jaminan (Bill of guarantees) I think MSC purposely shutdown the page or the link of Bill of guarantees from their page.

Let me share the contains of the MSC Bill of guarantees as below :

Bil Jaminan (Bill of guarantees) telah disediakan oleh kerajaan untuk menarik syarikat beroperasi di MSC. Bil jaminan ini menyediakan prasarana fizikal dan maklumat bertaraf dunia kepada syarikat yand mendapat status MSC iaitu :

i) Menyediakan prasarana fizikal dan maklumat bertaraf dunia.

ii) Membenarkan tanpa sekatan pekerja pengetajuan tempatan dan luar.

iii) Memastikan kebebasan pemilikan dengan mengecualikan syarikat berstatus MSC daripada keperluan pemilikan tempatan.

iv) Memberikan syarikat berstatus MSC kebebasan untuk menyediakan modal daripada pinjaman tempatan dan dunia untuk prasarana MSC.

v) Meyediakan insentif kewangan yang menarik.

vi) Mejadi ketua serantau dalam perlindugan Hakmilik Intekektual dan undang-undang siber.

vii) Memastikan tiada tapisan (censorship) Internet.

viii) Menyediakan tarif telekomunikasi yang bersaing sejagat.

ix) Mengeluarkan tender kontrak prasarana MSC utama kepada syarikat yang ingin menjadikan MSC sebagai hab (hub) serantau.

x) Menyediakan agensi berkuasan untuk bertindak sebagai pusat sehentian (one-stop supershop) untuk memastikan MSC memenuhi keperluan syarikat.

MSC juga bertindak sebagai pusat sehentian until memenuhi jaminan ke-10 di atas terutama untuk mempercepatkan pernohonan visa, lesen dan permit. Prasarana komunikasi yang akan disediakan dalam MSC berkelajuan 2.5Gbps hingga 10Gbps. Selain itu, satu panel perundingan antarabangsa (International Advisory Panel, IAP ) MSC telah ditubuhkan. Ahli panel terdiri dari mereka yang terkenal dalam bidang teknologi maklumat dan komunikasi seperti Bill Gates (CEO Microsoft), Scott McNearly(CEO Sun Microsytem), Stan Sheah (CEO Acer) dan James Barkdale (CEO Netscape).

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Name: yoyo	Comment: its ok la .. i oso dont want my child easyily access pornography. for sure cannot block all maa..
Rated Article: Posted: 2006-11-19 18:44:46

Name: noname	Comment: maybe next time, they will try to filter any blogs or sites that critics the government who knows?...even our mobile phone need to be registered? for what?..prevent "fitnah messages?"..haha lets wait and see what will happen next
Rated Article: Posted: 2006-11-19 18:19:34

Name: anonymous

Comment:
Stupid government...i can bet when things are very strict, people tends to do more crime..trust me..seriously, by banning pornography..those highly addicted people might transfer their lust to other people..who would know..as example, students in religious schools like sekolah agama tends to be more aggressive than students in full boarding school..this is because things are much stricter and students do not have thier freedom to ddo anything they want..even in the newspaper we read student hit by senior, and the worst, student killed by senior, in where? sekolah agama sekian sekian...US will then target Malaysia for stopping human freedom, just like Iraq where things are very much strict..you can't do this and do that..It will be the same then maybe US will invade us perhaps? well see

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Posted: 2006-11-19 16:17:36
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Name: EkEL8	Comment: Contradicting their own bill of guarantees.. With such system in place, sure, now its only porn... But they'll have the capability to filter out ANYTHING they deem inappropriate... like the Great Firewall of China filtering out the word 'Democracy'... there goes freedom of speech... Its not the porn filter i'm against, its the existence of the system itself.
Rated Article: Posted: 2006-11-19 13:44:29

Name: Matthew Pang	Comment: I like my online porn thank you very much.
Rated Article: Posted: 2006-11-19 12:52:41

Name: A Malaysian	Comment: Malaysia is losing liberty...wake up!
Rated Article: Posted: 2006-11-19 11:10:56

Name: anon	Comment: if that so i would move to the japan. more wierd porn ftw lol
Rated Article: Posted: 2006-11-19 10:09:51

Name: elfreakz	Comment: Agree with "Foriegner Studying in Malaysia" now its porn, later will me music and movie, soon will be NO INTERNET How will malaysia grow and aim for 2020, if there's so many rules, and malaysian do not have the freedom. weird people.
Rated Article: Posted: 2006-11-19 08:55:32

Name: d8kd	Comment: now is porn, but what's next? end of freedom ...
Rated Article: Posted: 2006-11-18 21:35:20

Name: Foriegner Studying in Malaysia

Comment:
If the Malaysian government does indeed pass this measure it will further show the country's lack of freedom of speech. Pornography is deemed by all as inappropriate but citizens are mature individuals that can choose what appropriate for them and whats not. How can Malaysia aim to be a developed country within 2020 when such laws being passed. The image of Malaysia around the world is a very positive one. I personally come from Bahrain which is a modern state in the Middle East. Malaysia is a good example of what countries in the Middle East are trying to be but with such laws this image will surely be shaken.

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