The BN-Pakatan Rakyat cyberwar has taken a new turn with pro-Pakatan Facebook users vowing to strike back with attempts to disable pro-BN Facebook pages.

Over the past week, netizens have been unable to access several popular pro-Pakatan Facebook pages in Malaysia, but the pages were still accessible abroad.

It is understood that opponents of these Facebook pages have mounted a coordinated campaign to report the pages for violating Facebook’s policies.

In retaliation, a new page, dubbed the Pakatan Fanpages Alliance, has urged netizens to adopt the same tactics on pro-BN Facebook pages.

Among others, they have urged netizens to report the Facebook pages of blogger Papagomo and Shen Yee Aun, a former DAP member and current Utusan Malaysia columnist, who has been gloating about the actions taken against the pro-Pakatan Facebook pages.

Tit-for-tat

Illustrated instructions detailing the necessary steps were also supplied. As of noon, Shen’s Facebook page remains intact.

Thus far, the Pakatan Fanpages Alliance have claimed victory in disabling access to a pro-BN fanpage known as Boikot Barangan Cina DAP, which reportedly had 62,224 followers.

The renewed “cyberwar” call was made following the disabling of the most popular Chinese pro-Pakatan Facebook page known as FB Top News.

The page has over 770,000 followers and was reportedly inaccessible in Malaysia from yesterday evening.

Six other Chinese pro-Pakatan fanpages are suffering from a similar fate. At the time of writing, the only known Malay fanpage that has been affected is Otai Reformasi II.

It is understood that two other Chinese pro-Pakatan fanpages have voluntarily disabled their pages to prevent them from being reported.