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