Uncle Yap,
Don't talk cok lah.
I am reading Malaysiakini and Malaysia Today RIGHT NOW.
I was using these sites last night until very late, but they were gone in the morning and I re-checked many times over 30 mins. Confirm all were down. The non-political sites were unaffected.
After that I went off-line, and I received sms to inform me that these sites resumed again.
Malaysiakini suffered technical faults during GE2008 in March. But their mirror remained up as their main server went faulty. GE2008 was a peak time of congestion. During Anwar's by-election there was no such problem.
However this morning, it shouldn't be so bad for congestion. Because it wasn't GE, it was just some ISA arrests. It shouldn't have overloaded so badly. That's why I believed they had been shut down.
Remember malaysiatoday.com was just shut down by BN govt this month. Remember malaysiakini.com was raided by BN's ISD (special brunch) more than once.
I will contact them to find out what happened. Both of these sites went down for more than 30 mins.