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 […]Click here to continue reading "Philippine Telco Board Wants Sites to Register!"...Philippine Telco Board Wants Sites to Register!
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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.
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.