Phil. Gov’t pressures Facebook over Fans?

That still OK which government just change the Facebook fan become others Facebook fan pages.
My dear Malaysia even worst. Government plan to banned of using Facebook in Malaysia due to spread so bad news about own Government.

misleading title?? can’t you see the question mark?
it’s not stating as it is true or already confirmed..

sa isang news writing acceptable yung ganyang title..
e yung ang issue eh.. it’s all over the news friends, sa tv, sa net.. people are asking about it.. and the title of this post is straightforward as it can be..

vovo!

Go to the official page at http://www.facebook.com/presidentnoy and you will definitely and concretely see that the page’s admins are not censoring the comments. Ben Totanes just wants to control it. Mabye he’s profiting from it. Hahaha!

guys, take it easy, di naman natin alam ano talaga ang motibo nila.
ang gawin na lng natin ay magbasa at maghanap ng evidences dito sa net, na nagpapatunay sa ginawa nila.
ako, meron akong FB, pero i’m just using it to post random pictures na sa tingin ko kakatuwa sa paningin

I guess they can because I think I read somewhere that they sent FB an official letter that’s why they shut down the original site.

This is very embarrassing for us Filipinos because FB is a global site and many other countries can read what had transpired.

How could Sec. Coloma deny this when I myself didn’t like that new Fan Page and I discovered that I am now part of that new page? So this proves that I along with the rest of the 2M fans where transferred without our consent! Doesn’t that violate our rights too?

I hope the media will interview Mr. Ben Totanes, the original maker of the disabled Fan Page, so the whole country will know what kind of people surround PNoy. I also hope that Pnoy will say something about this because what usually happens is that he is always late in “knowing” things that happens in his country.

Circulating those stories in FB alone will not reveal the true colors of these people. I just hope the media will pick this up.

@antinazi

I take issue with the usage of the word “pressure”. Using it in that sense makes it seem like the Philippine government has influence in a non-Filipino corporate titan like Facebook. Do you actually think our government has that much political clout? Why? What does FB gain from it? Nothing. Like I said, it’s so easy to overreact when it comes to freedom of speech. Read my first post again, especially the part where I say something about the CIA, the White House, etc. How can it not be considered dangerous for someone who is not affiliated in any way with the highest office of the government be given the liberty to post whatever he/she wants. Like I said, I give him the benefit of the doubt that he means no harm, but you must understand that something like that CAN (not will) have enormous consequences. Please, try to find a CIA or a White House FB page that has more than a million followers. I’m not saying that they actually exist. I was just giving an example. If it does exist, is it “officially” run by the CIA or the White House. If it doesn’t look official, how many followers does it have? Is it in the millions? Do you actually think the CIA or the White House would allow a page that they don’t run gather so much followers and not be worried?

Freedom of speech/media/whatever you want to call it still exists. You’re talking as if our internet freedom is mirroring China’s control of their country’s entire digital infrastructure (ex. Great Firewall of China). As I said a lot of times already, it’s so easy to overreact when it comes to these matters. I am not campaigning for our President or the government.

hahaha! fuck the Aquinos… never voted for them anayway.

never voted for aquino anyway, this just proves a lot of things about the govt. Censoring, blocking or even removing the authority of the person who created the page which the current president reaped the benefits of, is but a blade to the heart of freedom and privacy, not unless the creator was informed and agreed upon the handover of the page. On a different perspective how about the 1.6m transferred fans, where they informed? In a glance, dogs will always have masters not unless the dog is a wild dog, and things from the wild should stay in the wild.

very amusing!

@blitzkrieg

A question is not a statement. If you know something factual, share it and answer the question. You are showing too much bias. You are the one missing the point. Yuga believed the Philippine gov’t does not use it’s influence to pressure Yahoo, Facebook or others. And now we have this evidence staring us in the face. And you are not going to ask questions? You are the one missing the point. Let me spell it out for you. If the gov’t can do this, where does it stop? Do you believe in freedom of speech? Ask yourself that question before you post because it involves everyone, including you and not just the media.

Pwede na pala gawin ngayon yun. Yung pinaghirapan mong paramihin, pwede palang nakawin na lang basta-basta.

Pwede palang itransfer yung mga naglike sa page ng isang Celebrity or product.

@blitzkrieg: George Syliangco ang galing mo pala mag-ingles. Ipakilala mo naman sa akin si Amvic Taruc. Gusto ko kasing ipasarado fan page ni Ruffa at ilipat sa akin followers nya. Mas maganda naman ako sa kanya. Ahihi.

Sensationalism at its best. Your title is so misleading. Instead of using the word “pressure”, which would make it seem that our government is forcing something. You said it yourself. The logical reason behind this is controlling something sensitive. Do you think the CIA, or the White House, or the British Parliament, or the Russian Duma, or the Chinese National People’s Congress would sit idly if they knew they had an unofficial FB page with millions of followers? What if the person/people maintaining that page spread false information? Seriously, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that it can have ENORMOUS consequences.

And I think it’s extremely shallow and ridiculous to bicker about a FB page that got deleted. Sure, I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt that he means no harm, but it should be expected that these matters have to be left to the President’s office. Instead of saying you lost hope in the President, you should understand and do what a real man would do: step aside, instead of crying like a little girl.

This isn’t about Internet Freedom and Censorship. It’s about someone who is not authorized by the government dipping his fingers (though probably not in a bad way) in something that he shouldn’t dip into.