Ketua Pegawai Operasi Suruhanjaya Komunikasi dan Multimedia (Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission – MCMC), Mohamed Sharil Tarmizi mengesahkan bahawa akses ke laman web Malaysia Today telah disekat.
“It is being blocked because we found that some of the comments on the website were insensitive, bordering on incitement,” he told Malaysiakini.
Pengguna Internet menggunakan talian disediakan TMnet tidak dapat mengakses domain – http://www.malaysia-today.net – sejak petang kelmarin, ketika berlangsungnya pilihanraya kecil Permatang Pauh di Pulau Pinang.