#2 – We are too smart, they can’t censor the Net, even if they tried.
It’s simply a question of infrastructure. The Malaysian Internet Exchange (MyIX) was built on the pretext of saving the country huge amounts of money being wasted on local traffic being routed via international exchanges. Read it another way: the government doesn’t have full control over local ISPs. Many of the privately owned ISPs establish direct connections to foreign ISPs. MyIX routes all incoming and outgoing traffic via one central switch. And what does a switch do, primarily?
