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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[...] Now that is a load of crap. Sorry for the words but I can’t help it. As Mike Abundo said, “We’re governed by idiots who spend all day trying to figure out how to extort more kickbacks.” and while Abe is just speechless, I think that is so true. We really are governed by idiots who only think of us as “potential profits”. Just as Kiven said it “our blogs will be assimilated!“. [...]
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[...] Edgardo Cabarrios has apparently been NTC department chief for common carriers authorization for ages now, and his name has regularly cropped up in the news, whether concerning the VoIP brouhaha, or the proposal to mandate compulsory registration of SIM cards, as well as rather nifty proposals to allow people to keep the same number, regardless of the network they subscribe to, for example. But this latest attribution has gotten bloggers all lathered up. See Pinoy Problogger (using the famous line from the Borg) and Yugatech, who snappily borrowed the phrase“all your base are belong to us,” to headline his take on the NTC official’s alleged statement. [...]