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by asmala 1116 days ago
Neither bbc.com nor medium.com are blocked in Malaysia (source: I’m there presently), and I don’t recall either being blocked in Singapore or Indonesia. The sites blocked in Indonesia (e.g. Reddit) cannot be accessed by using an alternate DNS (e.g. Google’s) but are available via VPN.
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esperent 1115 days ago
Medium.com was definitely blocked in Malaysia for several years. Glad to hear it no longer is.

Unblocking reddit in Indonesia via DNS depends on the ISP, or did as of a couple of years ago.

https://www.engadget.com/2016-01-28-malaysia-medium-block-ex...

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asmala 1115 days ago
Ah, you’re right, Medium was blocked in Malaysia for a few years for hosting Sarawak Report, a publication that shed light on the 1MDB scandal. Wikipedia tells me the ban was lifted in 2018.
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