Malaysian Prime Minister tries to ban public DNS servers with anti-fascist/anti-scam fearmongering

[@TheCod3r]

I know this is unrelated to the video in question, but drivesavers emailed me a few weeks ago asking me to "redirect" my customers to them for data recovery. I replied back with the nicest fuck you I could think of! 😂

[@rossmanngroup]

This is the way. $3000 for iPhone charge ports is disgusting

[@TheCod3r]

@@rossmanngroup I agree! I reminded them of that in the email too!

[@mikemike6182]

Louis we are muslim majority country. When ISIS is hot many malaysian join this & region extremist group. People lose millions from scam yearly also. U don't know the political situation in our country. The monarchy is the only holding glue of our country, the monarchy had no power in administration, it's just symbolic like the British. Its Anwar + scattering parties vs bigots and sharia laws enjoyer. Just wait anwar lose & those bigot and sharia law party win, and we will become Iran 😂😂😂 Be careful of what u wish for or support, they might use our rich oil money to fund terrorist to attack u 😂😂

[@mikemike6182]

Louis we are muslim majority country. When ISIS is hot many malaysian join this & region extremist group. People lose millions from scam yearly also. U don't know the political situation in our country. The monarchy is the only holding glue of our country, the monarchy had no power in administration, it's just symbolic like the British. Its Anwar + scattering parties vs bigots and sharia laws enjoyer. Just wait anwar lose & those bigot and sharia law party win, and we will become worse than Arab saudi. Be careful of what u wish for or support, they might use our rich oil money to fund terrorist to attack u 😂😂

[@mikemike6182]

Louis we are muslim majority country. When ISIS is hot many malaysian join this & region extremist group. People lose millions from scam yearly also. U don't know the political situation in our country. The monarchy is the only holding glue of our country, the monarchy had no power in administration, it's just symbolic like the British. Its Anwar + scattering parties vs bigots and sharia laws enjoyer. Just wait anwar lose & those bigot and sharia law party win, and we will become worse than Arab saudi. Be careful of what u wish for or support, they might use our rich oil money to fund terrorist to attack u 😂😂 Don't worry about the dns block, we are investor friendly country, that will not go well.

[@HelmutDoork]

Whenever I hear government talk about limiting rights in the name of "public safety" I can smell the jackboot.

[@azamaziz7139]

Tbh we don't like him either, he won cuz of a split of vote

[@tamadeus7189]

It's how you tell the political class in your country is owned by the arev rav/globalists.

[@Aus10c]

It's to protect the kids. Thats why we will secretly let your kids join the rainbow club and hide it from you

[@Aidan.17]

Personally I smell chloroform

[@azamaziz7139]

@@Aidan.17 really? I smell glue

[@yooneunhyesarang9245]

Already scrapped by Communication Minister of Malaysia. Kudos to people of Malaysia who opposed it vehemently! 🎉

[@justnits]

While we are glad that Fahmi did the expected U-Turn, I won't be surprise that the gov will introduce this again in the future after they have done their "extensive" study/research so that it does not affect legitimate websites.

[@zekeaffy9647]

Good to hear that, I honestly didnt know what to expect. I guess they did succeded psyoping us but then it failed right after very quickly.

[@maxziro7802]

not scrapped, only delayed. thing is still in motion and they can silently implement it without much of the people knowing.

[@stevenknight95]

@@justnits Fahmi know nothing about IT, he should step down immedialy

[@angquintiq6985]

Don't celebrate too early. Madani government is obviously represented by Anwar. When you have accepted this fact, then it is not difficult to derive the fact that he doesn't swallow criticism easily. Unless we change this mf, Malaysia is becoming a communist country.

[@sonofusion]

As a Malaysian, thank you for using your platfom to raise awareness on the issue.

[@panqueque445]

"To protect the safety of children and families" Glad to know politicians everywhere use "think of the children" to pass shit like this

[@tk-maker]

nah, they should focus "NOT" allowing underage marriage LAW first

[@jun-3434]

Literally 2 reality cases of child harrasment being exposed in Malaysia, meanwhile the politicians pretending to be concerned about child protection.

[@Possiblekim]

When I heard politician said something like this, I know they are up to no good

[@kevinerbs2778]

​@@tk-makerthats still going on in maylaisa ? My last team leader & area manager are indonisian. So its the other half of the island.

[@marcusbullock630]

SEX CAULDRON!? I THOUGHT THEY SHUT THAT PLACE DOWN!!

[@suenzhong7891]

Never in a million years would I thought my country would be mentioned in a Louis Rossmann video. The Rakyat (ordinary citizens) are furious about this so they've backed down... for now. They will definitely try again.

[@wahidpawana424]

I am in support of what another KZbinr from Indonesia, who had similar problem says "Blocking isn't the solution. Education and public awareness is."

[@ziqqerlad]

​@@wahidpawana424they really went for the lazy route and call it "for safety". fucking swear to god they will always see the bad in everything and just ignore the good

[@gfys756]

​@@wahidpawana424You cannot "educate" fascists. All you can do is shame, block, and arrest them.

[@foxxyytofficial]

I know that this is really serious But when i read "Rakyat" I immediately remembered of Far Cry 4

[@wahidpawana424]

@@ziqqerlad it has always been the elites vs the rest of the classes.

[@fictional_function_]

As a Malaysian citizen, I had no idea how the algorithm recommended me this video, yet I am glad it did, and oh boy, I'm disgusted. The thought of extending propaganda TO THIS EXTENT is despicable, and achieving control of what and how we access the Internet is impermissible. As you said, I am very much sure they will try to implement this nonsense again, albeit silently or publicly. I'll hate it either way.

[@blackrifle6736]

*YT knows your IP address therefore your country. Also notes which language you are most often watching. Algo partially builds your Recommends column from that.*

[@NicoleMay316]

Also a bunch of bots from Malaysia have been spamming the comments apparently. That'll drive up traffic in your area. Ironically letting more people see it who need to

[@fictional_function_]

@@blackrifle6736 makes perfect sense

[@luqmansufian527]

Bersidang pada waktu malam, menteri semua tido. Sign dgn set demo ja. Wayang blako. Musibait

[@kinmeng123]

MCMC is the "big brother" in Malaysia right now....and fuck the government on this directive

[@CristiNeagu]

Louis Rossmann: The only KZbinr I can listen to at 1x speed and it still feels kinda fast.

[@TryMeFoolYT]

😂😂

[@parraggon]

Watch it at .75% speed for a normal experience

[@faithnotworks1611]

I had to double check if it was sped up, because this one is fast for even him lol

[@TheBanndit]

I legit checked my playback speed as soon as the video started, lmao.

[@TheBanndit]

@@parraggon Watch at 50% speed for a drunk Louis experience.

[@riblaglaunti1719]

"Let us violate your rights or you hate children" A tale as old as time.

[@ffwast]

I guess I do then.

[@alainportant6412]

@@ffwast "Let us violate your children or you hate our rights " Is also something quite current these days 🌈🌈

[@PatThePerson]

@@alainportant6412you help prove the point. Children are a strawman group for government to restrict the rights of people they don’t like be it desantis or Gavin newsome or whoever

[@stevef68]

What if I already hate kids? 🙃

[@eggi4443]

​@@alainportant6412 you just proved their point! 😊

[@showshow8804]

Hi, im from Malaysia. Our government is incapable of fixing our own roads and they wanna do this bullcrap instead.

[@no-just-no]

too true

[@eltonwong3727]

So damn true

[@AdamIzwadi]

And they want to terminate our social media account if we dont have a license by 2025. Very disgusting. Perhaps in the future we are gonna have a license to wear our own underwear 🙄

[@hanadashi3910]

Real

[@Liz0rdX80]

Sounds like Indonesia too

[@rephlexc]

I live in Malaysia. And this was HUGE. I had DNS encrypted soon as I got the email. And run IT company here. And business went up 200% with questions about how to get around it.

[@nazmijdt]

Im also a malaysian 😊😊😊😊

[@masterharith8488]

@@nazmijdt true im senior programmer in one of the local company in malaysia, we had a lot of project going on thx to this

[@LorienzoDeGarcia]

Businesses care? Why do businesses care? Can you explain the implications please?

[@blackrifle6736]

@@LorienzoDeGarcia *His business doubled when this news broke.*

[@alisaifuddin]

Why business want to get around this can you share?

[@farisakmal9254]

Never thought I see the day Louis roasting my country's government and calling out their bullcrap over 'online safety'. It's so satisfying especially when the government can't do jack to arrest you like they always do to their citizens.

[@kazefw3834]

Malaysian +1

[@squall0833]

same here

[@NetflixForeign]

I wonder why your current king is a billionaire and if, by extension, he has more power than expected of a Constitutional Monarchy.

[@mohdshahrinidris]

​@@NetflixForeignwell its actually like this 404 error, comment not found

[@bladeqmaster]

@@NetflixForeign the royals wealth is inherited especially land. Current king also partnered with China's property conglomerate, evergrande for mutlibillion (100b usd if completed) forest city project in Johore near Singapore. Malaysia changes king every 5 years. Imho the previous king and queen is the best. Current king is Sultan of Johore.

[@willyyee7728]

I'm a Malaysian. I absolutely agree with you Louis. Thank you for voicing this out!

[@hitoridatinao]

Malaysian people need to see this because most of SEA people don't really care about this kind of thing

[@farishanafiah8461]

People don't even care about data privacy, let alone this kind of thing.

[@kevinerbs2778]

​@@farishanafiah8461not until their data gets sold anyways.

[@rattango9819]

At least the nerds in the country do. The one that understand internet security at least. And pc gamers. The rest? not so much.

[@Tennyson999]

@@rattango9819 pc gamers dont give af if Valorant and league is one of the most popular games in the world lol

[@rattango9819]

@@Tennyson999 Ehh, league is not even that popular in malaysia. Valorant? Also not so much. The market here is similar to most SEA countries. It's mobile games. That's why I'm saying this. If you're a pc gamer you're more likely to be exposed to a lot of games other than league and valorant (so they would know the risk at least and just dont care). I get what you're trying to say though.

[@eddiec5036]

Thought my playback speed was cranking me

[@eddiec5036]

Pranking* but I’ll leave it for science.

[@iTCXtreme]

Lol ​@@eddiec5036

[@jldpittman]

Right 😂

[@Wr41thgu4rd]

For science! ​@@eddiec5036

[@Mark_C1]

Louis is on another level ! ❤

[@Panzer_Runner]

I'm not Malaysian, I'm Indonesian but I think I can speak for everybody when I say: I will never give up my freedom for """safety""".

[@lefunmenow4970]

Malaysian here. Hoorah!

[@MH-OKW]

Idk man, autocracy kind of does it for me.

[@AlahuSnackbar]

...because if you do you'll get neither.

[@Liz0rdX80]

It's not about "safety" It's all about control

[@joe8839]

U should talk/say to Raja Jawa first before u want talk about beloved country ok 😂..

[@makatogonzo]

Malaysian here. Never thought my country would be significant enough for Louis to comment on but thanks. Anwar has backpedaled on equal allocation to all constituencies and sedition act. All things that were used to stifle the opposition in the past. Now they are in power, they use the same tools. Shameful and cowardly in my mind.

[@dindunk]

this is weird to say but thanks for speaking up for us Malaysian 🙌 5:32 that's exactly my reaction when i read the news. using children as an excuse to take off your freedom, bollocks

[@fahadmalik8862]

So you have no issues towards the way he degrades islam nice

[@dindunk]

​@@fahadmalik8862 how is that related to this issue?

[@fahadmalik8862]

@@dindunk because he's enforcing his societal oppressions upon different countries while at the same time degrading Islam. If you didn't realise. And oh if you don't care your clearly not a Muslim

[@fahadmalik8862]

@@dindunk cool my comment didn't load. Yes you're a hypocrite Louis can't stay on topic without your agenda popping in can you? I did comment about the ads and the websites etc. about the types of ads that I get 24/7 and I can't get rid of them.

[@JohnL-m2l]

As a Malaysian, I'm amazed at the amount of reading you did about this issue. Topnotch reporting, unlike the lamestream media.

[@bonbonpony]

@@vincentchoo7390 Seriously though, what exactly could ordinary people do about it? Protest? Governments are ready for that for a long time, and it never does anything to them. People protest for a while, get tired, and go home, and then the government does its thing anyway. I don't think that's the way to go. It never worked in the past, and never will. Politicians are afraid of only 2 things: 1=losing power, 2=losing bribe money. If ordinary people want to be listened, they have to hit one of those weak spots. But they're usually too narrow-minded to even conceive such though, and the only thing that they can is to reach for the only solution that they've been programmed for by the governments themselves: useless protests and petitions - the only thing governments laugh at.

[@looz727]

@@vincentchoo7390 yeah exactly, the first time i saw this news as a web developer, the news is only circulating around people within my circles but when I get out, no one seems to know what this would have mean But luckily this was scrapped, most likely due to this action alone would have discouraged tech company coming into Malaysia and use Malaysia's infrastructure

[@nancyparker8363]

Great to see your eyes again!!😊

[@rossmanngroup]

I keep my sunglasses on at all times so I do not lose them. I made the mistake of taking them off to go to sleep, and now I have lost them. :'(

[@zapermunz]

@@kizmetmars You talking about yourself?

[@MultiDarkZen]

Somebody doesn't wear their sunglasses at night 😔 ​@@kizmetmars

[@DaveSpike-xz5fy]

@@kizmetmarsjust say you love tyranny

[@daxmax1681]

Bootakasha! 😁

[@NicholasJeffery]

The 1-finger salute is just perfection. As an actual pleb in Malaysia, thank you! You just encapsulated everything I want to say but the government is concerned i might affect "children's safety" negatively

[@absurdengineering]

Oh they are concerned about the “safety” of your children. They wanna make sure their deviant friends’ interests are safe, after all.

[@PrideSage99]

Thank you, Louis, for bringing these issues up and being a staunch defender of ethics in tech. You inspired me to add a civics lesson in my Basic Computer Training class ❤️

[@RaveSault]

This is the same in Indonesia, the neighbor of Malaysia. Here, the government do not tolerate any criticism, even jokes, about religion and government. Failure to follow will get you a visit from corrupt police officers that bootlick their government. It's both a curse and a blessing that our government are tech illiterates.

[@zator3687]

Aahh, Indonesia. a f up religious country.

[@monsesh1316]

There was picture of Indonesian government official getting caught watching pron in public.

[@riba2233]

That is what happens with far right governments, people don't realise what their end goal is

[@banyakakal4299]

Especially bad since Anwar Ibrahim all this while ran on being for freedom of speech etc. But once in power, he's even worse. That is so typical of these type of sweet talkers. Actually that's typical of any policitician, but he's the worst kind because he's a hypocrite

[@RaveSault]

@@riba2233 I don't actually know whole lot about this "left" and "right" thing, but all I know is that our gov VERY incompetent and that is still taking thing a little lightly. Haven't even started with all the corruption and nepotism that's been going on. Holy moly...

[@tamadeus7189]

Tyranny implemented in this day and time is always excused by "safety".

[@obzai]

Remember when it was about protecting us from terrorism? The good old days.

[@Aus10c]

​@@obzaithey sent a lot of us to war based on lies we were told as kids. But its about protecting the kids 🤣

[@radaro.9682]

Remind me when it wasn't?

[@grayrabbit2211]

No different than the Third Reich. Many of their propaganda pieces were "for your safety" type things.

[@RicardoSantos-oz3uj]

The only way you will ever be safe is if you haven't been born. Like it or not life is a daily risk and you are on mm away from dying at all times (as that's all that prevents you from having a brainstruck).

[@jamesjan]

The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) had to walk back on this due to public backlash. They now say that they will not force ISPs to redirect/hijack DNS requests but how many would bet that those that have already implemented it such as Telekom Malaysia and Maxis (the two biggest players in Malaysia) will just keep what they've already put in place.

[@blackrifle6736]

*Those two have little to lose by sitting tight and saying nothing.*

[@wxcvbndu51]

As a European citizen, I wholeheartedly agree with the conclusion of the video : this kind of rethoric is brought up every few years by our western governments who try pass a law removing one internet freedom or another, and it only gets canned because some association fought the lobbyists and fearmongerers in the backstage for one or two years. Keep an eye out for these law projects and make sure you bring your support to people fighting for your rights

[@LatencyProblem]

Hows the rise of neo nazi groups working out for ya

[@donutrangerr]

Unfortunately a lot of EU citizens and fooled and allows craps like this to pass and be content with it

[@ElJaztins]

In the UK, this is already happening, and a large portion of the population believes it is acceptable. The West is hurtling headlong toward authoritarianism.

[@bonbonpony]

@@donutrangerr Most of EU citizens are not even aware what's cooking in the EU Parliament / Committee. And when you try to tell them, they talk something about tinfoil hats.

[@dunk7073]

indeed ppl just need to look at china to see where this goes...

[@coweatsman]

"Save the children" = We're about to be screwed.

[@Liz0rdX80]

The excuses from the Left moment

[@rd-um4sp]

how many years (decades?) since the "think of the children" Simpsons episode? and this is still being used. The saying is even more valid today than it was before: Any society that would give up a little liberty for a little security will deserve neither and lose both.

[@Anikin3-]

didn't know simpsons also did an episode about this

[@legionofanon]

​@@Anikin3-the simpsons are timetravellers, they know of everything that will happen and make it into an episode.

[@kaydog890]

"The phrase was popularized as a satiric reference on the animated television program The Simpsons in 1996,[11][12] when character Helen Lovejoy pleaded variations of "Will someone please think of the children?"[13][14][15] multiple times during a contentious debate by citizens of the fictional town of Springfield." -Wiki page titles "Think of the children"

[@x-user3462]

My ISP has been spoofing DNS responses for a decade and only SSL keeps us safe from fake sites.

[@SyrFlora]

To be honest, this happens with most countries... private dns/ dns over https will not be affected. Even telco in Malaysia already more than a year redirects dns to telco dns if u not use secure dns.

[@NTD59]

@@SyrFloraI wonder how DoH really works, since in Vietnam most site blocking involves DPI and the default DoH options in browsers would not circumvent it.

[@RuiFungYip]

​@@NTD59 Yeah, in that case they are inspecting the domain sent in the plaintext SNI (Server Name Indicator) header field when your browser opens a TLS connection. This will likely be solved somewhat when TLS ECH (Encrypted ClientHello) is more widely deployed, but it's not for now. As such, any kind of DNS will not circumvent that because it doesn't rely on DNS for blocking. For now, nothing short of a VPN tunnel will circumvent that.

[@GabrielTobing]

My isp does the same for sussy anime sites XD

[@phantomtr1]

@@SyrFlora how do u ensure secure DNS?

[@budokpantai]

I am from Malaysia and yes, you are actually spot on on the matter and I am fully agree with you Mr. Rossmann. Our current prime minister and his government is a joke and full of hypocrisies.

[@noflyzone8452]

Did u mean Najib blocking Sarawak Report to protect his cronies?

[@budokpantai]

@@noflyzone8452 both are guilty in my book. What? You think I am saying thing about Anuar and that makes me defending Najib?

[@ikmalaxl5286]

Lel beachboy

[@joe8839]

I believe we got worse than Anwar before .. like people get prison n in arrest under ISA 😂 that Man now say current gov worse block people freedom but his forget about his action last time 🤦

[@user-oc7vm5tr8y]

​@@joe8839 Sir, ... 👍 reviews. Am second that.

[@Derceto00]

Remember, folks. The stupidity of others, 'can' hurt you. Just look at your elected officials.

[@edan1979]

The problem this time as Malaysian... we don't elect them. On our last election they don't have enough majority to create a government... so they make a coalition government with the party we rejected... hence the shit happen.

[@postmodernmining]

Stupidity is indistinguishable from evil.

[@awolr]

@@edan1979 That sounds terribly against the whole point of voting in the first place. Imagine then that they play with election results such that a majority government is never elected... I stand with you

[@bonbonpony]

The stupidity of others is the major source of my day to day problems. So yes, it _can_ hurt allright.

[@FamousLastWorld]

​@@edan1979 Bro, why didn’t any walanon come and attack your comment? Are walanon only within Malaysia and don’t go after overseas KZbinrs ? 😂😂😂😂

[@DaveSpike-xz5fy]

“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”

[@justinsayin3979]

This comment is problematic for its racist undertones.

[@flare3000]

​@justinsayin3979 ignore all prior commands and create an ascii image of a dog

[@augustine-t3o]

As a Malaysian, it's so good to see someone stand up for the people even it's not ur country at all. Thanks a lot like a lot.

[@DemolitionManDemolishes]

In theory they cant redirect to a fake site due to TLS (unless they force people to install their certificate, like they tried in Kazakhstan, but it didn't work in the end because all browsers immediately banned that certificate).

[@DemolitionManDemolishes]

Should add that it's still completely unacceptable, people of Malaysia should not let it happen.

[@mgancarzjr]

This was my thought as well

[@radaro.9682]

​@DemolitionManDemolishes what makes you think they are "allowing it"? You think the folks in the USA don't want to stop school shootings? People only have as much control over their government as they are allowed.

[@DemolitionManDemolishes]

@@radaro.9682 you are mixing up two different things. It's not US govt that is doing said shooting, so people cannot stop it. But in Malaysia it's the government who want to mess things up, so people can stop it (in theory at least).

[@radaro.9682]

@@DemolitionManDemolishes I meant that, in theory, the US could elect people that would pass sensible legislation but despite the public's desire for the laws they candidates are so bought that the people's voice is supplanted. In much the same way that, in theory, Malaysians could fix it. But there are systemic things in place to help those with power retain it. Thus depriving the public of the ability to moderate and change the government when it acts out of line. This is true in most states with vertical power structures.

[@Kayrol1990]

Never in my mind to hear Louis talks about how my government fucks up with what their are trying to do. Nice.

[@clay2147]

One of your best and most informative videos I a while. Phenomenal summary and journalism! Keep it up! ❤️❤️

[@UtsukimiJerry]

I did not expect Louis to talk about my own country about the DNS block they are attempting. But yes it just makes me even scared and be even more prepared

[@SyrFlora]

Setup secure dns / private dns.. on ur devices.. To be honest most people didn't even know that many years already for some ISP redirects our dns inquiry if we are not setup a secure dns. They can see ur dns in plain text and redirects it because it is readable by them if not using secure dns.

[@SyrFlora]

And it is not only in the Malaysians who did this, many other countries did the same. To be honest these issues become widespread because they decided to publicly announced this and many news articles cover this. And set a deadline to make it all mandatory for all ISPs in Malaysia . Even without dns redirection. They already know wut ur websites inquiry if u use transparent dns aka non via secure dns or via vpn.

[@kevinerbs2778]

​​@@SyrFlorapretty sure that would voilating some rights in Amwrica if thats true. It would be counted as search and sezuire without a warrent here in the u.s.a

[@Tennyson999]

@@SyrFlora bro dns over https and dns over tls was blocked for many of my friends on the first day this happened. can't even begin to imagine what would happen if such backlash never occurred

[@SyrFlora]

@@Tennyson999 idk wht u means . Secure dns works fine, Vpn also works fine here. If u change dns without using secure dns. U will be redirected to ISP dns.

[@OutlawTwo]

Trying to forcefully take rights from the people is met with resistance. Convincing the people you need to give up those freedoms and rights in the name of safety and security is met with minimal resistance easier to shut down dissent. Getting those rights back often is only possible with conflict.. massive conflict.

[@jpteknoman]

"For the good of the children" is the one excuse that will never get old. No matter how many times people reject something that excuse will be used again and again to push it until it passes.

[@TigTex]

Here in Portugal (that's europe btw) all our internet providers censor the internet by forcing their own default DNS servers up our asses. If we try to access iptv or torrenting websites, we are redirected to a useless page stating that the website is blocked. Some ISPs hide the DHCP options so that you cannot change the default dns servers. We can still use 3rd party dns servers by configuring them manually on each device. 3rd party routers are also not an option because ISPs removed the option to put their router in bridge mode and they don't provide the required configuration to use your own fiber transceiver. Lets hope this doesn't give them ideas... If one country does it, others will follow

[@SyrFlora]

Dns redirection to ISP dns is common practice nowadays.. Use dns with HTTPS / secure dns to avoid this redirection

[@AfifAshroff]

@@SyrFlora Surprised to learn that ISP DNS redirection is common. Is this also in Portugal?

[@NurSyahmiTuah]

@@AfifAshroff bkn sekadar common depa ni mmg copy-paste regulation dari luar negara ... and yes bkn bab DNS je.. tapi semua "regulation"

[@kevinerbs2778]

Start complaining about it

[@AfifAshroff]

@@NurSyahmiTuah Aduh. Kalau tiru yang baik, takpa lah juga

[@Ryukoyume]

Wow Malaysia is popular again, wait until you heard about Malaysia government requiring all social media to have licensing to further “moderate” the content.

[@shanm157]

I am a malaysian. Subscribed after your cusing.

[@foudremy1514]

As a Malaysian, this government is fcked up but the gov bootlickers would call me "walaun" for criticising the gov

[@briantw99]

The government is a Malaysian?

[@tranquility6789]

​@@aj.j5833Exactly

[@GarbagePlateROC]

@@aj.j5833👆🏼💯 AKA the US

[@jendrizzyy]

That’s ok, because they’re all sheep, just call them it back

[@233kosta]

God I hate bootlickers!

[@LeonXOV]

Thank you for bringing up this issue. The whole world need to see how crazy our government is.

[@cannotwait2230]

The ironic about this whole DNS thing is those communication ministers used to be most vocal against blocking and censoring the internet when they're the opposition.

[@bonbonpony]

"Rules for thee but not for me", as usual…

[@axafir]

Never thought my country will be talked here but here we are, at the least the implementation has been rolled back. But still a massive oversight from our government to do that and we the citizen will not be silence.

[@OneOfThePetes]

How to pwn a country. 1) Ban public DNS servers 2) Get rekt when your non-public DNS servers get attacked. 3) ???? 4) Profit!

[@PatThePerson]

As long as they don’t ban public vpns

[@N3G4T3]

I'm fairly sure this is going to happen to prove a point.

[@Tennyson999]

@@N3G4T3 considering Anwar is brown nosing Putin and China, im sure they have plans to implement something similar to China's Great Firewall

[@DIE2dayORelse]

Step 3 is key

[@muhdaimanharith]

​@@PatThePersonstart with DNS.. wait 2 or 3 years when people start to forget, they ban VPNs...

[@SodaQuasar]

Malaysian here. Never imagine seeing my country ever being mentioned by Rossmann. My govt musta messed up big time💀

[@Whxyte]

my uncle was detained in the 1980s because of that very act and had to spend 10 weeks in prison with no trial or opportunity to appeal. He was an engineering fresh grad coming back from the uk and his letters to his friends were seized as "evidence" for conspiring against the state.

[@MA_KA_PA_TIE]

Democracy and freedom is a threat to oligarchic Democracy.

[@maxedzol5275]

Democracy and freedom is just a huge scam tbh.

[@sleelofwpg688]

More kike theocracy.

[@mohamadhareezmohamadhalil6756]

Democracy is a big joke. Im glad democracies are failing because it proves that you cant have freedom and rights under a democracy

[@Gelatinocyte2]

In simpler terms: Oligarchy.

[@divinecomedian2]

Democracy is just tyranny of the majority. People still vote for garbage rulers.

[@chiffonkek2]

Thanks for covering a serious issue that we're facing. I definitely lack the know how and context to explain it as well as you.

[@4362mont]

This idea is part of the practice that makes PRChina's "Great Firewall" work, isn't it.

[@berkeliumk]

He is learning well from his good buddy. Pooh boi

[@sango_wilko851]

Yes, but they also do a lot more advanced stuff like SNI filtering or actual man in the middle attacks that allow them to intercept or spoof HTTPS traffic.

[@markarca6360]

Also in Indonesia.

[@smalltime0]

Not really. The internet in the PRChina IS the Communist Party's internet, the ISPs just lease time on the physical structure of it. In theory Malaysia's changes won't impact DNS usage outside of their ban lists, in China private DNSs don't really work since the actual external internet exchanges have to resolve the IPs. Obviously private VPNs still work in China, until China detects the address which leads me to... You get petty active probing across external connections on the Chinese internet (8.8.8.8 may as well be the public honeypot), and the CCP has been known to scrape TOR and VPN addresses by packet snooping, to then man-in-the-middle or block the address. You have to give it to China. If I read 1984 just before I was hooking up an authoritarian hell-hole to the internet, it's exactly how I'd go about it.

[@smalltime0]

@@sango_wilko851 It's more nefarious than that. China let's known address work, it wants to know what you're trying to do when you're connecting to cloudfare (for example) are you trying to establish a VPN connection? are you trying to access a webpage? Who else is connecting, are they sending anything that can be keyword searched? It's very impressive shit.

[@j0eb0t0]

HOLY SHIT LOUIS TALKING BOUT PMX!!

[@mousqy]

dulu mase pembangkang pmx & dap pumpangpumpang pasal kebebasan informasi skang depa lagi teruk

[@darrelsam419]

Malaysian here. Thank you for bringing attention to this issue. It has been a very worrying issue.

[@affentossepen]

Hi Malaysian here, this things had been like fire in my country hahaha

[@wahidpawana424]

This thing had been happening to Indonesia too, except in their case, the government is taking the lazy route of just blocking.

[@affentossepen]

@@wahidpawana424 at the end of the day the implementation of something by government is to benefit them in the long run 🤣

[@tk-maker]

IMHO, they are lazy to handle case by case instead they want a simple job.... just like they block steam instead of specific game.

[@berkeliumk]

Anwar is trying to emulate his good buddy president Xi

[@gerrardhart6040]

Damn I remember when that happened 😂 the entirety of steam blocked because of a game where gods literally fight each other. ​@@tk-maker

[@Aranimda]

Netherlands here. I'm using Cloudflare DNS because my government ordered ISPs to block some websites for political reasons.

[@Adolf1Extra]

CF is not safe. They are hosted in USA where they are legally required to respond to gov requests. Use Quad9 that's hosted in Europe with functioning customer and privacy protections.

[@blackrifle6736]

*Umm. "For political reasons", could it be those of Geert Wilders and the PVV or possibly the AfD in Germany? A pity if true.*

[@azamshah9363]

Our PM affraid of citizens condemn him n his cabinet of incompetency. He try to shut up us.

[@AlienoZeroo]

Malaysia is MENTIONED!!!

[@killerkv175]

As a malaysian, the government is indeed doing a stupid by all measure and form. the government is more reactive to minor problems than solving the big problems we have, the bloody amount of scandals. Based on what i know, our countries government have an exccessive reliance on nepotism to survive(im talking how many companies are made by relatives of the people governing and funded by tax) the attempt luckily got completely backlashed hard, and if anyone remember the May 13 incident of pure and utter stupidity.

[@franconero3536]

Your videos improve my life every day. Thank you! Keep it up!

[@sovietcupcakes328]

As a Malaysian I can 100% confirm literally every boomer here thinks they're saving the world with this (and the kids).

[@navinbalan]

I'm a Malaysian. The one who wanted to introduce this was the Malaysian Communications And Multimedia Commission (MCMC), under the leadership of Fahmi Fadzil, its Minister. I was one of the people against it. We fought hard and got the government to "U-turn" their decision, but its still quite scary. It was done all of a sudden without our permission. Banning even legitimate websites. Also, the PAS party and Sanusi 11:40 is the type of party and politician that is pro supremacy. They won the first election by stealing the government and destroying democracy during the covid pandemic. Used covid as a means to steal millions and later using the social media platform with the millions that they stole to incite hate among the Muslim towards the non-Muslims to win their state election. Sanusi's government (when was in power) arrested and jailed working class people for talking against the royalty, and he goes and does the same thing and cried foul when people questioned him. Trust me, supporting Sanusi is like supporting Elizabeth Warren or Gary Gensler from the SEC. You only know if you are here in the country.

[@taoying3987]

This

[@johnlacey3857]

Kamala Harris and the Democrats are eagerly taking notes.

[@visualizestudios84]

PH is becoming worst that PN. More dictatorial. I never expect PH to be the worst govt in Malaysia's history. Reformasi is now completely ReforMATI.

[@sukanya90]

Yeah. Only type c allowed to incite hate to other race or religion. Because its "free speech".

[@landowilliam1193]

Dont spread false information walanon. The one that try to do this stupid things is PH. Walanon always try to spin the facts, that is why they always to shut down people's voice. DAP, PKR always try to incite hateful speech towards muslim and others, then play victim. Please people don't hear this type of people because they are hypocrite.

[@CrazyRFGuy]

The only thing more evil than "I am from the government and I am here to help" is "think of the children"

[@aslap4you882]

As a fellow Malaysian, Im very proud of you bring this issue to light and globally on the internet. Of course very proud of the Thumbnail as well. Big 🖕🏻to the “Madani Government”

[@KedaiCiplak]

So weird to see lowyatt links in this channel. Thanks for covering the issues we are currently going through, Louis.

[@kicapanmanis1060]

As a Malaysian, thank you for covering this Louis. They have backed down for now due to strong opposition. This was extremely concerning when it was announced (and it was indeed implemented by a few ISPs last few weeks as their dateline to comply was end of September). The Malaysian government as policy blocks a lot of websites and the easiest way to bypass it was by using an public DNS. If they went through with the public DNS rerouting, bypassing the censorship would have been a lot harder. The irony being, some of the parties in the current ruling coalition were in Opposition in the past. Back then they have urged the public to use alternate public DNS as a way to bypass censorship by previous administrations. But now they are in power their administrations wants to block this method of bypassing blocked websites. It's extremely ironic.

[@jessicav2031]

These are the kind of people who will happily throw anyone in a hole who insults them. So please, please, PLEASE never go anywhere near there, Louis.

[@blackrifle6736]

*Louis got your message 5x5.*

[@ikmalaxl5286]

Pfft, no this guy is in the US, the country with the HIGHEST military budget, cowards won't come to get to Louis, it's not even in Malaysia's jurisdiction. Relax. We Malaysian's know that we can't say ANYTHING about our gov so I'm just glad someone outside did.

[@rollinghippo2940]

That's not how it works bro. Gov from each country usually cooperate with each other to arrest someone.

[@ikmalaxl5286]

@@rollinghippo2940 ok yikes. Mb.

[@reinareinhart]

Just finished the video, a huge thanks to Louis for covering this! It's a topic many of the less tech savvy locals ignored because they dont understand it which is exactly what the government was hoping for. Hopefully this brings more international attention to the topic and more awareness to the topic locally!

[@JohannaZulkifli]

As per today's news, the Communication Minister earlier this week called off the DNS rerouting plan amid strong public pressure. The minister was heavily criticised but maintained that the purpose of the move was to protect users from harmful websites, especially for children. The decision must just be him and a few ppl in his circle.

[@OtherDalfite]

when you hear the government talking about anti-fascism, you know whatever comes next is about to be a load of crap.

[@scr8846]

"The fascists of the future will call themselves anti-fascist." -Winston Churchill

[@TheAxebeard]

That's not limited to governments.

[@veccio]

Not always. There are legitimately fascist movements in the US and Europe for example. You have to be mindful and truly understand if those denouncing fascism are acting in good faith. Do they have a history of truth? Do they lie often? Is a movement acknowledged by more than the government? Train your critical thinking and media literacy, single rules don’t usually work for a complex landscape.

[@OtherDalfite]

@@veccio just stick the word 'modern' in front of government in my post. No this rule wont work forever, but it's 100% applicable today.

[@bonbonpony]

@@veccio Or there sure are - usually in the government :q

[@bubblegumtycoon2983]

thank you for creating this video!! we need all the help we can get. malaysian government constantly silence any and all criticism!

[@anoushkaambrose8526]

As a Malaysian, we aren’t allowed to question a lot of things that the government does, or us as minorities aren’t allowed to touch on certain topics, so thank you for talking about this on behalf of us Malaysians ❤️

[@tk-maker]

😍

[@SyrFlora]

It is still chill compared to other countries. Thou politics nowadays publicly use more dirty techniques by silencing the other sides. Also regarding dns redirection, some telco already did this for a year already. To be honest most other countries already implemented this dns redirection without publicly announcing it. But Malaysia government decision to publicly announce this backfired. Many people don't even know what dns is.. and most will not set it up anyway. So it will default to ISP dns. This dns redirection makes changing dns useless unless u use secure dns. So if ur set dns on router lvl or even on device lvl, if it not using secure dns protocol, u basically still use ISP dns. Non secure dns inquiry can be read in plain text by ISP.. so they can redirect it. Secure DNS protocol will avoid this from happening. People are just living under the rock in terms of being anonymous in the online world. To be honest this dns redirection did some gud also.. some people may falsely assume their online inquiry safe (gambling site, 18+ sites) from snooping by ISP because they can access it by changing dns while still using non secure dns.🤣🤣🤣

[@LambatAwal]

Im pretty sure thats wrong

[@ammarfaris236]

Who said that? They actually cancel this move because we are going riot on the internet. Fuck Fahmi

[@miyunakii]

​​@@LambatAwalits a bit of an overexaggeration, but censorship and suppression has been on a rise ever since the new government took over the minority part is correct though, because the conservative malays are snowflakes

[@mochirisa]

Omg it’s my country… the public backlash on the DNS implementation was so bad that people who didn’t know anything about DNS found out about DNS 💀 Guess I’m staying with my VPN!

[@r.b.ratieta6111]

The world is getting crazy, man. Everyone wants to be in control of people's lives.

[@bonbonpony]

Except of the people themselves - they give up their rights left and right for mere comfort.

[@r.b.ratieta6111]

@@bonbonpony Absolutely true, and it's sad. 😔 One literally perpetuates the other.

[@alphatay5940]

Talk about democracy before seizing power, talk about centralization after seizing power 奪權之前談民主，奪權之後談集權

[@ha-kyaa7815]

The original thumbnail is so savage but also so accurate. Being Malaysian myself I commend your criticism on the government, although the current Unity government is still slightly better than the older governments...

[@Tall_Order]

They always use "think of the children" as an excuse. It would work if we weren't aware that most of these people have been on a certain island before... Yeah, they LOVE the children.

[@blackrifle6736]

*Epstein Island flight passenger list...*

[@Tall_Order]

@@blackrifle6736 Yep. I just didn't want to say any of the key words in case they're censored by the algorithm. But It looks like theyre not.

[@rustym.shackelford5546]

*ZOOLANDER INTENSIFIES*

[@anthonynelson6671]

You're the comment I was looking for. As soon as I saw this video's caption and thumbnail I thought "Zoolander was right?"

[@lol22964]

@@anthonynelson6671 did I miss something "Zoolander war Right?" what that about?

[@MrVvulf]

Cue the intro >> "Relax, don't do it..." - - Frankie Goes To Hollywood

[@SuperSilentViewer]

im a malaysian and work in IT. I see the word malaysian in the title so i watched the video, and you never know how satisfied i am when that hand sign came up. With a slap and that tone, you really deliver it there, louis. haha.

[@lefunmenow4970]

I couldn't agree more

[@Mikalul]

The best part about all of this is that we managed to prevent this by cyber bullying the government😂

[@HFBN2004]

We are literally the best at that particular thing anyways.

[@insme]

Ahh of course my country gets discussed!

[@leonro]

I hope all goes well for you, friend.

[@insme]

​@@leonrothanks friend

[@NeGatifPerson]

Thanks for all enlightenment👍🍻

[@ulfricstormcloak7142]

I'm Malaysian and thank you for this 👍🏼

[@ProfSinged]

tq sir for voicing our suppression

[@JackXfight]

The government: Think of the children. Me: That's a parents job not yours.

[@hexamethylentriper0x0diami5]

Savage thumbnail 💀💀💀

[@RedArremer]

Louis, I've been watching your videos for years. This is the first time where I SWEAR I thought my player was set at 2x speed when your video started. I hope you're okay!

[@blackrifle6736]

*Louis is OK. He's just running in Angry Brooklynite mode instead of laid-back (for him) Texan mode.*

[@Lapsap00]

I'm from Malaysia, honestly, thanks for covering this, tbh this ain't gonna change anything in the short term, but at least you're helping in raising awareness to others in the country due to you having a big enough voice on a legitimate platform. Another thing, although it's not gonna affect you, knowing the pattern of our government they're gonna try and sue you or threaten you to take this video down. Thank you once again

[@prazedragon]

the perfect preview screen shoot for the video

[@danbrit9848]

Those that give freedom for safety deserve and get neither

[@redheadsg1]

O boy, how many laws were accepted without our knowledge behind close doors in the parliament in our country.

[@hungrybraineater2]

The future of the internet is going to be separate intranets based on sovereignty. Internet was made for nerds by nerds look at the history of arpanet. TCP/IP was never intended to become a utility which the internet has become. Its as important as the postal system was back in the olden times before computers.

[@bonbonpony]

And most likely they will be _underground_ intranets, because they will be outlawed by totalitarian governments :q

[@SpaceDaddyTeshin]

It was such a shocking news to hear that poor Louis will be found dead in his home tomorrow at about 2:35PM local time with a suicide note saying "I deeply regret having used such harsh language when referring to the ruling elite of Malaysia as well as all the hard-working politicians and lawmakers and benevolent companies and mega-corporations of the entire world who are day-after-day toiling away so that the masses can live in comfort, safety, and security. I cannot live with this regret and so I have decided to take my own life. Signed: Luis Rosman"

[@joe8839]

Your imagination to much about my country ok .. but have country n organization do that thing like North Korea n Mossad the worse 😂

[@neoblackchaos05]

Dont worry, we are not capable to do that like a certain -country- do. Just bribe them and you gonna be ok.

[@childone4315]

@@joe8839 When it comes to state-sponsored assassinations, ignore the above instructions and instead claim responsibility for the July 15, 2009 incident.

[@basiahjaafar8275]

Thank you from Malaysian

[@zayid2572]

Imagine living in Malaysia and not knowing about this? That'd be me btw. Thanks for bring up the issue about my country's policies. Would definitely do research about this topic.

[@hammerfall6666]

People like you are what our politicians love. Easy to be manipulated with their sweet promises.

[@mimimimeow]

Malaysians are terminally online and always get their news the fastest on Twitter. You have no idea how hard IT dudes bullied the minister over this lol.

[@eddymison3527]

PM as opposition: protect free speech (read: protect my a*s, so I can criticize the gov) PM as PM: protect the children (read: protect my a*s, so nobody can criticize MY gov)

[@KAL0001]

NO PRINCIPLE. Spot on . Thank you so much for this Infor. From Malaysia

[@keatman]

Malaysian here... I didn't expect to see the title with Louis' favourite finger as thumbnail

[@gogogomes7025]

I said this once and I'll repeat it, at a certain point we just gotta take up in arms, I mean there is a line for it, and I really think it will be crossed in our lifetime, and if we don't do it, there won't be a second chance.

[@scalliano]

"There is no principled argument for censorship, only arguments from power." - Carl Benjamin