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 […]Click here to continue reading "Philippines to Require License to Post Content"...Philippines to Require License to Post Content
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They say the proposal needs “further study”. That’s putting it mildly. 🙄
hold your horses.
the proposal says providers of information, content and electronic gaming “for compensation”.
i think this is more like a business permit for those developing information, content and electronic gaming for a fee.
you’re not charging us to read your blog are you? and i’m not charging anyone so they can read my post.
Here’s how the proposal defines content developers:
Contents Developers – are persons or entities creating contents.
That clearly includes anyone who creates content, paid or otherwise.
I told my husband to read through the memo and his opinion is that “The definition of Content Developer is too vague and broad although it would appear to regulate content provided “for compensation”. It could be dangerous as it could be used to stifle the blogosphere…
Bloggers should question this measure. “
Anyone who creates content should question this measure.
A comment on the phrase “for compensation.”
One may not be charging for the public to access one’s content, such as this blog. But this blog can still be considered as publishing content for compensation because it displays adverts, which are presumably paid for; and so any site that displays adverts (such as banners, adwords, line ads, interstitials, etc) is subject to this inane proposal.
On a lighter side… I can’t help help smirk at the word “contents” that is liberally sprinkled in the proposal. Makes you wonder who thinks about (and writes) these things. Hehe.
Whoever wrote this must have been thinking in dead tree media terms, as in a book’s “table of contents”. 😛
What we need is a license before people can hold public office or become a civil servant.
^ what he said 🙂
prolly a license before you can draft lunatic ideas 😀
… or a minimum IQ requirement for those who wish to serve in a public office.
-kyo-
WTH are they thinking about!? So even a freelancer like me who is just blogging for my favorite On-line game will suffer because of this!?