By DEE AYROSO
Dropping out
Tags: DNS blocking of bulatlat
Standing together
By DEE AYROSO
On first National Press Freedom Day, journos reiterate call to defend free press
On the first National Press Freedom Day, journalists highlight the increasing attacks against the Filipino media community and how laws were being used to silence the independent press.
After denying TRO, what’s next in the fight to #UnblockBulatlat?
Minerva Lopez of the NUPL, who is also among the lawyers of Bulatlat, said that despite the denial of the TRO, “the merits of the case are yet to be decided upon by the court.”
#TheRealDuterteLegacy | Killings, threats, cyber-attacks against the media under Duterte
President Rodrigo Duterte opened his six-year presidency with a threat – that journalists are not exempted from assassination “if you’re a son of bitch” – about a month before he was inaugurated into power. This cemented his hostility towards the media. And it did not end here.
PH gov’t urged to stop ‘intimidatory tactics against independent media’
The Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on the Philippine government to restore access to two alternative news sites that were earlier blocked for supposed terror links, saying this is intimidation and censorship.
Progressives say blocking of their websites reminiscent of Marcos Sr. days
“This situation is like a throwback to 1972 when Marcos Sr. closed down private media and broadcasting networks and maintained only government mouthpieces.”
Int’l media groups stand in solidarity with Bulatlat over website blocking
International media organizations are appalled over the National Telecommunications Commission’s order blocking online access to Bulatlat and fellow alternative news Pinoy Weekly, which the Philippine government accused of having terror links.
Peddling misinformation?
By ROBERT ELARDO