Saturday, October 24, 2015

MC + MCMC = MCC?

No, it is not an equation. Just my way of attracting attention to how Malaysia Chronicle got into trouble with Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission, which was surprisingly without much publicity. MCC is not Malay Chamber of Commerce, but Chinese for 'Mung Cha Cha' or being blur.

According to editor of Malaysia Chronicle, Wong Choon Mei:

"When my hand-phone alarm woke me at 5am this morning, it was with reluctance and a heavy heart that I opened my eyes. At the back of my mind the whole weekend was my 11am interview or interrogation by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission.

And true enough, it turned out not to be a pleasant experience.

Less than 10 minutes into the meeting at the MCMC headquarters in Cyberjaya, my lawyer Latheefa Koya was ‘booted out’ from the room by none other than the director of the enforcement department, who personally came to ‘collect’ her.

And in doing so, he denied me of my fundamental right to legal representation.

Now, those of you who know Latheefa will know what a brave person she is and how very vocal she can be. But perhaps sensing my nervousness, she helped to restore calm to my troubled thoughts after she had argued for many minutes with the MCMC officials.

Finally, she allowed them to speak with me alone, but of course, only after whispering a barrage of advice into my ear. Sad to say, the words promptly twitched out of my other ear!

Thus, began nearly two-and-half hours of questioning into my background, Malaysia Chronicle and the article I wrote on Thursday entitled Najib warns of ‘crushed bodies’, ‘lost lives’, ‘ethnic cleansing’ if status-quo not kept…."

More:
http://www.lawyersforliberty.org/589/

For now, if you visit MC, you are greeted with this message:

Laman sesawang ini tidak dapat diakses di Malaysia kerana
kandungannya melanggar undang-undang negara.

NOTIFICATION
This website is not available in Malaysia as it violate(s) 
the National law(s).

As usual, internet news portals cannot be completely shut out, and those interested are advised to change the settings in their computers:

MALAYSIA CHRONICLE HAS BEEN BLOCKED.
HOWEVER, YOU CAN GET IN BY ADJUSTING YOUR LOCAL COMPUTER DNS.
PLEASE FOLLOW THE STEPS BELOW, IT'S QUITE EASY
IF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS, PLEASE WRITE TO US AT malaysiachronicle@gmail.com

1. Go to Control Panel
2. Select & click into Network & Internet
3. Select & click into Network & Sharing Center
4. Select & double click into Local Area Connection
5. Select & click into Properties
6. Select & double click into Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)
7. Select 'Use the following DNS addresses'
8. At 'Preferred DNS server' type in 8 . 8 . 8 . 8 (i.e type 8 into each of the boxes) (for Yes broadband for example)
or type in 8 8 4 4 (for Maxis broadband for example)
9. Click OK & it will go back to previous menu (as in step 6)
10. Click OK again
11. Finish, you should be able to get into malaysia-chronicle.com

MALAYSIA-CHRONICLE.COM

My advice: Unless you are comfortable in changing settings, please leave it to someone who knows.

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