Comments on: NTC: Resistance is futile, your blogs will be assimilated

By: A Closer Look At The Draft NTC Value-Added Service Rules

A Closer Look At The Draft NTC Value-Added Service Rules — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:04:16 +0000

[...] Yuga, and the Pinoy Problogger, not to mention other bloggers, must have spilled their morning coffee on their keyboards today at [...]

By: The Social Life of The Freethinker

The Social Life of The Freethinker — Tue, 01 May 2007 07:21:13 +0000

NTC: I Want Your Blog!…

Another funny and idiotic news that I’ve heard yesterday which came to be derserving of serious attention was the Philippine Government’s Plan to charge and register blogs here in the Philippines, plain foolishness. The draft formally known…

By: NTC: you need a license to operate a blog or to have a website. | Voluntary Death

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:38:15 +0000

[...] 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!“. [...]

By: Current » Squeeze the virtual turnip

Current » Squeeze the virtual turnip — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:54:57 +0000

[...] 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. [...]