{"id":1308,"date":"2007-07-27T21:53:34","date_gmt":"2007-07-27T13:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1308"},"modified":"2009-04-25T20:17:26","modified_gmt":"2009-04-25T12:17:26","slug":"1303-of-is-it-censorship-or-abnormal-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1308","title":{"rendered":"[1303] Of is it censorship or abnormal traffic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The wind over the Malaysian blogosphere has it that Malaysia Today is being censored in one way or the other.<\/p>\n<p>I however am unsure what is going on because I failed to access MT directly and by proxy at one time or the other. I must also admit that when I could access MT, it would be easier to access it through a proxy server.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Screen shot by Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Public domain.\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/maddruid.com\/Graphics\/20070727MtFailedProxy.jpg?w=580&#038;ssl=1\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Screenshot by Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Public domain.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the end, it might be just a case of abnormal traffic and limited bandwidth. So, I think it is wise to sit out and observe how this episode will develop in the next few hours instead of jumping on gun shouting fire.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/reusable\/the__earthinc.png?w=580\" alt=\"Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved\" \/> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/reusable\/the__earthinc.png?w=580\" alt=\"Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved\" \/> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/reusable\/the__earthinc.png?w=580\" alt=\"Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved\" \/><\/p>\n<p>p\/s \u2014 on the next morning, Saturday, at around 0700 hours, just before I am getting ready for a day hike, I am able to access MT just fine.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Screen shot by Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Public domain.\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/maddruid.com\/Graphics\/20070728MtDirectConn.jpg?w=580&#038;ssl=1\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Screenshot by Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Public domain.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Maybe we all should stop taking that dose of sensationalism (sensationalism is okay, as long as it is true) for a little bit (by &#8220;that&#8221;, meaning, <a href=\"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1183\">this<\/a>). It could be that it was just TMNet offering bad service. It was Friday&#8217;s evening after all when traffic is likely to spike compared to weekday.<\/p>\n<p>Masquerading speculation as truth is just not right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wind over the Malaysian blogosphere has it that Malaysia Today is being censored in one way or the other. I however am unsure what is going on because I failed to access MT directly and by proxy at one time or the other. I must also admit that when I could access MT, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[598,510,169],"class_list":["post-1308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-bandwidth","tag-censorship","tag-free-speech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1308"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3846,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions\/3846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}