There's nothing surprising here, although it's important to call this out. As I've traveled around SEA a lot over the past few years, I've found that many sites are commonly blocked and surprising how little it seems to be discussed. In particular, medium.com and BBC.com seem to be blocked in at least Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand. Probably Singapore too. Those are the ones I noticed, I'm sure there are many more blocked that I've not seen.
There's no "great firewall" level blocking going on and the blocks are easily circumvented using a proxy or alternative DNS.
But blocking media sites when they publish anything critical of the government is unfortunately standard in this part of the world.
There's no "great firewall" level blocking going on and the blocks are easily circumvented using a proxy or alternative DNS.
But blocking media sites when they publish anything critical of the government is unfortunately standard in this part of the world.