NTC: Resistance is futile, your blogs will be assimilated
Here’s another “bright” idea from the Philippine government:
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 circular on value added services, Edgardo Cabarrios, NTC director for common carrier and authorization department, said contents of Web sites such as Yahoo could be classified as a value added service in so far as its delivery is concerned.
“Telecom is delivery of content. When content is delivered it becomes a telecom service,” Cabarrios said.
I can understand why Mike and Abe are miffed at the idea. and you as a blogger/owner of a website must be too and rightly so. I’d like to see them try and force this down people’s throats. Website registration and government regulation? What’s next?
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