During the recent general elections, Sinar Project used Open Observatory Network Interference (OONI) to monitor online censorship during the elections.
Updates
How blocking is done in Malaysia and how they can be tracked using technical evidence available as open data on the OONI platform.
Blocking of WeeChooKeong.com website
Sinar Project will be monitoring internet censorship during the upcoming Malaysian State Elections, with particular emphasis on web sites that are potentially at risk of censorship. To date, blocking has been detected and confirmed for three domains: utusantv.com, weechookeong.com and www.bersih.org
Sinar Project conducted monitoring of internet censorship during the recent state elections in Malaysia and found that key websites were accessible. A few websites on the election monitoring list however were detected as blocked.
A brief article on verifying blocking of websites using OONI Explorer
The State of Internet Censorship reports covering OONI data in the first half of 2022 and 8 countries: Cambodia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam has been published.