NTC: All your blogs are belong to us!

Now, this has got to be the funniest idea I have ever heard in years. From Mike Abundo, the NTC wants everyone to register their websites, blogs, podcasts, pictures, and all other digital data posted on the net.

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.

Un-fracking-believable! I’m just speechless.

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

55 Responses

  1. Avatar for beeps beeps says:

    Eat Your Shorts!! haha!

  2. Avatar for MiGs MiGs says:

    AYUS!

    Does NTC have the capacity and capability to do this?

    or nang gugulo lang sila… gusto nila ng link loves.. wahahhaa.

    May the content be with you!

  3. Avatar for Axzar Axzar says:

    Three Words:

    Domains by Proxy

  4. Avatar for David Zandueta David Zandueta says:

    Dang, kaya pala I can’t the article in question. Oh well.

    Does the NTC have any online site where people can post comments on this issue? Or any “resource persons” invited to speak up on this?

    Rather than talk, act. Fast.

  5. Avatar for Mike Abundo Mike Abundo says:

    “Yeah i agree with the others. It’s ok to register as long as it’s free. No payment, not a single dime. Another good exposure!”

    And if they ban those who do not? What if overseas bloggers refuse to register with a bunch of corrupt third-world bureaucrats? The Philippines will become nothing but a tiny little echo chamber!

  6. Avatar for karla karla says:

    this is bad :D

  7. Avatar for Jeffrey Wong Jeffrey Wong says:

    Yeah i agree with the others. It’s ok to register as long as it’s free. No payment, not a single dime. Another good exposure!

  8. Avatar for Jerome Jerome says:

    this is totally stupid, why not ponder on their sites first before thinking of others. our government websites are far cry from other countries.. tsk!

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