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Re:Malaysia started mandating ISPs to redirect DNS queries t... by seungwoolee518 on Saturday September 07, 2024 @01:13AM (#41471593)
My country (Korea, South) is also prohibited to get pornography service. (And they also terminate TLS using TLS HELLO)

So, DoH should be work fine for now, but they'll (gov.) terminate HTTPS (or TLS) connection ASAP.

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Re:Malaysia started mandating ISPs to redirect DNS queries t... by christophilus on Saturday September 07, 2024 @01:22AM (#41471628)
The only hotel I remember from my visit to South Korea (20 years ago) had a whole bookcase full of porno DVDs in the lobby. Were they just breaking the law in plain view?
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Re:Malaysia started mandating ISPs to redirect DNS queries t... by seungwoolee518 on Saturday September 07, 2024 @01:31AM (#41471661)
There are some movies out there (but it's not a porn.) as Ero(tic)-Movie.

It's legal, but it's not a porn.

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Re:Malaysia started mandating ISPs to redirect DNS queries t... by kijin on Saturday September 07, 2024 @01:59AM (#41471782)
There are conditions a producer must meet to make their wares legal.

Same as why a lot of Japanese people seem to have pixelated genitals. ;)

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Re:Malaysia started mandating ISPs to redirect DNS queries t... by csomar on Saturday September 07, 2024 @01:32AM (#41471668)
People break the law all the time, it's up to the government to enforce it and many times the government is unable to do that. See here in the case of Malaysia, it's not that Porn was legal, it's that they weren't competent enough to restrict it or know about DNS things.
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Re:Malaysia started mandating ISPs to redirect DNS queries t... by 38 on Saturday September 07, 2024 @01:46AM (#41471722)
You can spoof the TLS Hello since at least 2021
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Re:Malaysia started mandating ISPs to redirect DNS queries t... by HeatrayEnjoyer on Saturday September 07, 2024 @06:51AM (#41473096)
> My country (Korea, South) is also prohibited to get pornography service.

Why? I've never heard of a non-Islamist nation banning content as benign as porn.

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Re:Malaysia started mandating ISPs to redirect DNS queries t... by tamirzb on Saturday September 07, 2024 @07:40AM (#41473315)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_laws_by_region

It's really not that rare even for non-Muslim countries, especially in Asia

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Re:Malaysia started mandating ISPs to redirect DNS queries t... by timomaxgalvin on Saturday September 07, 2024 @08:20AM (#41473504)
Is porn benign?
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Re:Malaysia started mandating ISPs to redirect DNS queries t... by Biganon on Saturday September 07, 2024 @12:08PM (#41474660)
No, and neither is refined sugar. Your point?
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Re:Malaysia started mandating ISPs to redirect DNS queries t... by Muromec on Saturday September 07, 2024 @09:02AM (#41473706)
It's a thing of deprived bourgeoisie. So are drugs, alcohol and having a personal car.
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Re:Malaysia started mandating ISPs to redirect DNS queries t... by Muromec on Saturday September 07, 2024 @08:54AM (#41473670)
Ukraine still has soviet-era law criminalizing possession, distribution and production of porn. It's only enforced against local producers, but it's a thing.
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Re:Malaysia started mandating ISPs to redirect DNS queries t... by HeatrayEnjoyer on Monday September 16, 2024 @09:16AM (#41555755)
Unexpected! Ukraine produces some of the most prominent studios and actors.
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Re:Malaysia started mandating ISPs to redirect DNS queries t... by inferiorhuman on Saturday September 07, 2024 @09:08AM (#41473734)
Pornography was broadly illegal in the UK through the 1980s. It's still illegal in the Vatican, which is about as far from an "Islamist" country as you can get.
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Re:Malaysia started mandating ISPs to redirect DNS queries t... by seungwoolee518 on Saturday September 07, 2024 @09:36AM (#41473875)
So, they're not blocking only porn. They're blocking a wide range of sites with various reasons - for example: selling illegal drugs (including mental, abortion drugs), copyrighted sites (torrent, etc), praise about north korea, etc...

When they've started to terminate TLS, the reason was to terminate illegally shared webtoon (web cartoon) sites.

For more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_South_K...

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