Philippines to Require License to Post Content
I’m attending a hearing tomorrow on a proposal by the Philippines’ National Telecommunications Commission that will require licenses for online content developers. Yes, you read that right. The Philippine government wants to require licenses for people to create and post content online. Under the proposal’s extremely broad definition of a content developer, you would need [...]Philippines to Require License to Post Content
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Crazy Crazy Crazy…
The government is asking too much from the people.
Before they hop into this delusional idea, they should be focused more on TRIVIAL MATTERS…
Further study? harharhar I think they need Ambien or Valiums..
Blogging, is a practice of freedom of speech. The blogger is entitled to whatever content he/she wishes to post bearing in mind the possibilities that it would create pandemonium or world peace..
Blah….
So if a person posts e-books on his blog and asks for a small fee from those who download it, he is subject to these regulations?
What about those sites that offer shareware and ask for donations? Will they be forced to comply too?
This is another example of money-making at the NTC; and of regulations that will stifle the growth of online content.
That’s because they see it as a threat, kinda like a silent Cold War : Who wields the more info rules.
Yeah, “protect” traditional media. “Prevent” traditional media from crashing.
Governments can easily control traditional media. They can’t control the cyberworld.
They have the resources to talk to traditional media and they know who to talk to and force to.
They do not have the resources to talk to the online media and they do not know who to talk to and force to.
So, here’s China, slowly opening up and slowly giving more freedom.
And here are the “Democratic” countries, panicking how to control FREEDOM.
As usual, a government run by idiots trying to make more idiotic laws.
I think the the memo does not include us peeps on the internet. A member on our Filipino LIveJournal community contributed a link to an analysis of the draft and it seems that this memorandum concerns the telecommunications sector and not the online sector.
Quote, “…It can be assumed that all mention of content therefore only applies to cellular based networks.”
Assumptions kill. Regulations should leave no room for ambiguity. Ambiguity welcomes abuse.
Furthermore, most modern cellphones have browsers. Even if we assume the memo were to apply only to content accessible via cellular networks, the whole Internet is accessible via cellular networks.