> It’s sad that democracies are copying...

"Democracy" is a bit of a red herring here. Democracy doesn't mean the government can't censor you or restrict what information or media you can consume. Democracy just means that the voters have consented to whatever legal framework is in place, and to whatever their leaders want to do within that framework.

And that's the thing: in many democracies around the world, if there was a referendum on the law to blocking copyright infringement, online gambling, or pornography at the ISP level, I think many would pass that law.

(Certainly there are "democracies" out there that only pay lip service to the concept, and have fixed elections and repression of dissent or opposition. I'm not talking about those.)

Sarawak here (on unifi). My network uses self setup multi DNS path with enforcing encryption so no biggie but I tried some nonetheless. Quad 8, 1 are fine atm, while Quad 9 traceroute returned !X.

can you share a little on your setup?

router DNS redir to pihole(Not the shitey FiberHome) -> pihole to internal(bind9 plain local to Adguard Proxy DoQ) -> self hosted tunneled whitelist DNS quicdoq DoQ, Adguard DNS DoQ (upstream quad 101, others.)

I have a similar setup, it will not be immune if they start implementing in your area. They were rolling out by areas before they reversed course. Your upstream will stop working unless you proxy it through another network

It is proxied towards a machine outside of Malaysia (A machine I've setup elsewhere). So yeah.

Even now that they have reversed it I'm now determined to find a way to do this the cheapest way possible

Yeah, given the gomen track record, I won't be lowering the defenses anytime soon. Good luck to you on your path to it!

I'm in PJ. It seems that they have reversed the move after wide media coverage, claiming that it there has been a "confusion"