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Medium's Sitewide Encryption Confronts Censorship in Malaysia
The article reports that Medium was blocked in Malaysia, apparently to censor the Sarawak Report, an investigative outlet that had mirrored its articles on Medium. Medium's legal team kept one specific post online despite government demands, saying it would stay up until a competent court ordered its removal. The article argues that Medium's sitewide HTTPS encryption makes it hard to censor single pages, which forces governments to block whole domains, and it urges more news sites to adopt HTTPS by default.
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