The Malaysian Communication and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) has denied that instruction has been issued to Internet service providers (ISPs) to block an article on BBC's website on Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak's kangkung fiasco.
Referring to the article titled "#BBCtrending: Be careful what you say about spinach", MCMC corporate communication chief Sheikh Raffie Abdul Rahman (right) said the inaccessibility could be related to several reasons, including overload due to too many Internet users trying to access the article at the same time.
"As far as I’m concerned, MCMC has never issued any instruction to the ISPs or any parties to block the article," said Sheikh when contacted by Malaysiakini today.
However, he is "unsure" whether the ISPs have blocked the article themselves.
Meanwhile, a customer services staff member from Maxis, who wanted to remain anonymous, said that the company had not blocked the article.
“We never received any information from technical support that they had blocked the article,” she said when contacted, adding that they had not received any customer complaints regarding this matter.
Article is accessible from about noon today
The article was "unblocked" at 11.51am today after various news report and complaints from netizens on several online forums since last night.
On Tuesday, the British broadcaster had picked up the story on the public ridicule drawn by Najib’s remarks regarding vegetable prices, but netizens began reported problems accessing the article on its website last night.
According to Malaysiakini’s own testing, the desktop version of the BBC report is still inaccessible as of 8am today through TM’s Unifi and Maxis’ 3G service, while Yes 4G’s and Celcom’s mobile Internet services are unaffected.
The mobile version of the same article was still accessible and so were the rest of BBC’s website.
Referring to the article titled "#BBCtrending: Be careful what you say about spinach", MCMC corporate communication chief Sheikh Raffie Abdul Rahman (right) said the inaccessibility could be related to several reasons, including overload due to too many Internet users trying to access the article at the same time."As far as I’m concerned, MCMC has never issued any instruction to the ISPs or any parties to block the article," said Sheikh when contacted by Malaysiakini today.
However, he is "unsure" whether the ISPs have blocked the article themselves.
Meanwhile, a customer services staff member from Maxis, who wanted to remain anonymous, said that the company had not blocked the article.
“We never received any information from technical support that they had blocked the article,” she said when contacted, adding that they had not received any customer complaints regarding this matter.
Article is accessible from about noon today
The article was "unblocked" at 11.51am today after various news report and complaints from netizens on several online forums since last night.
On Tuesday, the British broadcaster had picked up the story on the public ridicule drawn by Najib’s remarks regarding vegetable prices, but netizens began reported problems accessing the article on its website last night.
According to Malaysiakini’s own testing, the desktop version of the BBC report is still inaccessible as of 8am today through TM’s Unifi and Maxis’ 3G service, while Yes 4G’s and Celcom’s mobile Internet services are unaffected.
The mobile version of the same article was still accessible and so were the rest of BBC’s website.
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