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Internet Censorship in The Philippines How Will Affect Us and How To Bypass?

The Philippine Cybercrime law represents a threat to Internet censorship in the country by allowing prosecution of individuals for certain online activities. While prohibiting trafficking and child pornography is reasonable, the law also covers posting controversial topics online. This has prompted protests from freedom of speech activists. However, there are tools that can circumvent censorship and access blocked content, providing different levels of security.

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Internet Censorship in The Philippines How Will Affect Us and How To Bypass?

The Philippine Cybercrime law represents a threat to Internet censorship in the country by allowing prosecution of individuals for certain online activities. While prohibiting trafficking and child pornography is reasonable, the law also covers posting controversial topics online. This has prompted protests from freedom of speech activists. However, there are tools that can circumvent censorship and access blocked content, providing different levels of security.

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Introduction

Internet Censorship in the Philippines how will affect us


and how to bypass?
Many governments, companies, schools, and public access
points use software to prevent Internet users from accessing
certain websites and Internet services. This is called Internet
filtering or blocking and is a form of censorship. Content filtering
comes in different forms. Sometimes entire websites are blocked,
sometimes individual web pages, and sometimes content is
blocked based on keywords contained in it. One country might
block Facebook entirely, or only block particular Facebook group
pages or it might block any page or web search with the words
access denied on it.
In fact the Philippine Cybercrime law officially recorded as
Republic Act No. 10175 represents a threat and a start of Internet
censorship in the country as claimed by many users and
protesters. The main points covered by this law allow prosecution
of individuals dealing with trafficking, cybersex, child pornography
and other questionable types of content or activities on the web
which generally is a good thing. The aforementioned document
however does cover additional points, most notable of which
presuppose legal consequences for individuals posting or blogging
on-line about controversial topics. Freedom of speech activists
reacted to this fast by spreading the news and organizing official

protests. The government does not seem to be reacting positively


to this as no official statement has been made of the law
abolishment.

However, regardless of how content is filtered or blocked,


you can almost always get the information you need by using a
circumvention tool. And there are different ways of circumventing
Internet censorship, some of which provide additional layers of
security.

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