[x-pubpol] Phillipines NTC to require ISPs to block porn starting this month

[Joly MacFie]

Winthrop Yu has produced an excellent deck summarizing the situation.

http://www.slideshare.net/hwnddawg/anti-child-porn-act-privacy-slides





On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 1:15 AM, Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:

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> http://www.yugatech.com/the-internet/ntc-to-require-isps-to-block-porn-starts-this-month/
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> March 15, 2014
>
> The National Telecommunications Commission has posted a memorandum
> circular last January 30 that will require ISPs to block child pornographic
> content and websites in the Philippines.
>
> This is part of the guidelines set forth to comply with the Anti-Child
> Pornography Act of 2009 (Republic Act No. 9775).
>
> With the implementation of the rules and regulations, ISPs will have to
> install carrier-grade monitoring programs to identify and filter out porn
> content. This could include websites and blogs that publishes porn content,
> video streaming services that allows uploading and viewing of pornographic
> video, file sharing sites and webcam services that facilitates the same.
>
> The Philippine is one of the top countries for porn as well as primary
> source for an emerging webcam child sex tourism. Last month, PornHub
> reported that the Philippines ranked #15 in global mobile traffic to their
> site.
>
> In 2008, we also reported that the Philippines ranked #8 in the world for
> porn revenues.
>
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