The NTSCMP Affair.

Did Richard Li's PCCW Netvigator and papa Li Ka-shing's Hutchison Global Communications block with malicious intent the English-language satirical website Not the South China Morning Post (ntscmp.com)? There is/was a prima facie case, after all. For details see previous posts.

Or, has some other commercial enterprise with another sort of malicious intent either hi-jacked or compromised in some way the IP address of ntscmp.com -- 69.49.101.19 [reverse DNS - hostedc10.megawebservers.com]. In that case, so as to launch the occasional phishing expedition and other forms of online fraud?

Based on some suberb detective work by EastSouthWestNorth, Mister B suspects the latter is looking increasingly likely. For why that is, please visit: EastSouthWestNorth or ESWN

Other than the evidence presented there, ESWN also has a report furnished by well-known IT expert Charles Mok. The report will be of interest to those of a technical bent: report.

What else? Having read a translation of the report in the Chinese-language mainstream media Apple Daily -- no friend of the Li family commercial empire -- on 22 September, one was waiting with some excitement to reading some more in the English-language newspapers South China Morning Post (paid subscription; no link) or Hong Kong's The Standard.

Nothing yet, though.

All we have is this, according to NTSCMP (via proxy server):

". . .South China Morning Post reacted to the NTSCMP censorship story by booting it quickly downhill to a columnist in the Business department who then got instructions to spike it."

Would that be SCMP's Lai See column?

As for The Standard:

"The Standard's local news team on the other hand seems to be a man, his girlfriend and a bicycle these days."

Erh, discuss.