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Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Sarawak Report still blocked, says MCMC despite access on laptops

The Sarawak Report website remains offline for mobile phone users. – Sarawak Report screenshot, July 21, 2015.The Sarawak Report website remains offline for mobile phone users. – Sarawak Report screenshot, July 21, 2015.
The Sarawak Report website remains accessible in Malaysia, except on mobile phones, although Internet regulator Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) said it has been blocked since late Sunday.
MCMC strategic communications director Sheikh Raffie Abd Rahman told The Star the whistle-blower site was still blocked.
"It is still blocked," The Star reported him saying.
The site can be accessed with the use of virtual private networks (VPN) and on social media, some Malaysians have been sharing online instructions on how to use such networks since Sarawak Report was blocked.
Sarawak Report has also set up another site at www.sarawak-report.org if the original URL cannot be accessed.
MCMC has said the country's 22 Internet service providers have been instructed to block the UK-based website, which has been carrying exposes on debt-ridden state investor 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) as well as allegations involving Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak.
The regulator blocked the website on Sunday night on grounds that it undermined national stability and because of complaints from the public.
MCMC's move has been criticised by opposition politicians and civil society groups who have described it as a violation of constitutional freedoms, as well as being a pointless move that would only serve to undermine Putrajaya's credibility further.
A federal minister, Datuk Abdul Rahman Dahlan, had also admitted that the block might be futile as Malaysians would find other ways to access the website, but said it had to be done because the government had "to make a stand".
The international press has also picked up on the block, with Singapore's The Straits Times noting that the move sent a "warning" to other news sites that had also been publishing allegations against 1MDB and the prime minister.
Putrajaya has blamed Sarawak Report for using falsified information about 1MDB which was used by other media outlets.
Sarawak Report has denied the use of tampered evidence and asked the authorities to show which parts of the information had been forged.
- TMI

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