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 [...]Philippine Telco Board Wants Sites to Register!
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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?
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.
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/