Philippine Telco Board Wants Sites to Register!
No, that’s not a joke headline from The Onion. This is, without a doubt, the stupidest thing I’ve heard all year.
The National Telecommunication Commission plans to classify Web sites and other data posted on the Internet as a value added service that needs to registered with the government.
In the preliminary hearing of a draft memorandum circular on value added services, Edgardo Cabarrios, NTC director for common carrier and authorization department, said contents of Web sites such as Yahoo could be classified as a value added service in so far as its delivery is concerned.
“Telecom is delivery of content. When content is delivered it becomes a telecom service,” Cabarrios said.
See, this is why PayPal doesn’t send money to the Philippines. We’re governed by idiots who spend all day trying to figure out how to extort more kickbacks.
(From The Manila Times via Jim Ayson.)
Tags: Edgardo-Cabarrios, NTC, Philippines, stupid
April 27, 2007 | Filed Under PhilippinesComments
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yay! more n00bs.
Told you people, it’s coming… this is just the beginning. We really need to get one-step ahead or 100-steps ahead our n00b government officials.
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Fuckwits.
“Telecom is delivery of content. When content is delivered it becomes a telecom service, therefore I am retarded.”
Stupid is putting it mildly.
OT: hey Mike!! i am working with a college friend here… says hi!! Coy Mariano?? know her?? hehehe… she has been regalling me with kwento of your college years, man!!
you are now 0wn3d!! wahahahaha!!
Glad you’re entertained, Chris.
now i finally get it! when a pizza is delivered to my house, the telco is responsible!
You’re right, Jayvee! Also, humans carry around 600MB of genetic data. Whenever a baby is born, the telco is responsible!
Does saving files on a USB stick count?
Tsk.. ridiculous.
Are they going to tax each page hit a site gets soon? What the.
mike, do you have a screenshot of the news article? am i being paranoid or did the article suddenly vanish?
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Jim Ayson forwarded the full text of the article through the PH-Cyberview Yahoo Group. You can read it there, registration required. I’d repost the full text here, but a newspaper that can’t permanently post a hot article is probably a copyright troll.
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More idiots in the government, what else is new… (sigh)
Just a thought, let’s open this topic on our government’s official forums :p
-> http://www.gov.ph/forum/
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NTC: I Want Your Blog!…
Another funny and idiotic news that I’ve heard yesterday which came to be derserving of serious attention was the Philippine Government’s Plan to charge and register blogs here in the Philippines, plain foolishness. The draft formally known…
where’s the link to the manila times article, mike?
Thanks to The Manila Times’ bad archiving, I can’t find it. Jim Ayson forwarded the full text of the article through the PH-Cyberview Yahoo Group. You can read it there, registration required.
ay grabe naman! pati personal sites? how’s that for democracy?
grabe…ano na naman kaengotan yan..
kainis
What a sorry bunch of losers… sheesh
what are the possible repercussion you see if they do succeed in classifying web sites as such?
also, how can websites be classified as a ‘value added’ service when we explicitly pay for an internet connection for the purpose of accessing these websites? is there an angle to this that i’m not seeing?
this is extremely worrying. if you consider how corrupt some people can be in these organizations. one can’t help but think that this might actually have a chance of becoming reality.
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Dang, kaya pala I can’t the article in question. Oh well.
Does the NTC have any online site where people can post comments on this issue? Or any “resource persons” invited to speak up on this?
Rather than talk, act. Fast.
“We’re governed by idiots ….”
For several decades now and counting.
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What the fuck are you NTC guys are thinking? For your info NTC dumb people, the web is free!
And you have to squeeze people for money out free service on the web and make them pay for it.
You should die all of you mother fucking NTC people!
grabe na to
NTC is the true Cyber Terrorist.
Kulang pa ang pinanggagalingan ng mananakaw.
Hail
What do you think about this? When it happens?
Tsk…dapat sina GMA at lahat ng pulitiko sa Pilipinas eh patayin ng mga Pilipino at ibitin sa dambana ni Rizal sa Luneta.
Masaya iyon diba?