Suspending The Tax On Text
In my recent blog about taxing text messages and monitoring the short message service (SMS) of cellular phone companies, I discussed about the approval of a house resolution imposing a 5-centavo tax for every text message by the ... read more
Suing An Internet User For Libel
The content of this blog refers only to the Philippine scenario. We all know that laws vary from country to country and so I wish to say beforehand that any legal matter that I will mention here refers ... read more
Celebrating The Software Freedom Day
Today is Software Freedom Day (SFD) and celebrating it is scheduled not only in the Philippines but all over the world. SFD is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) with the goal to educate ... read more
Responding To Web Filtering At ISP Level
This blog post is about a provision on the soon-to-become law on Anti-Child Pornography where our Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are mandated to filter or block unwanted sites at their level. I had already tackled the issue in ... read more
Analyzing Telcos’ Per Pulse Call Charge Proposal
Do you remember the third memorandum circular of the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) ordering the cellular phone companies to shift to per pulse (6-second = 1 pulse) charging of calls from the current per minute charge? I had ... read more
Updates On Internet Censorship Issue
I have already made three (3) posts entitled Censoring The Internet, Filtering The World Wide Web and The Proposed Anti-Child Pornography Act that contain my opposition to a provision mandating the Internet service providers (ISPs) to do the ... read more
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