Hackers
This is disturbing for the “freest media” in Asia.
Websites of opposition groups are experiencing attacks in cyberspace. Both the philippinerevolution dot net and dot org sites of the communist party, which I have not visited, had suffered “denial of service” or replaced with “search page.” The site of the research NGO, Ibon Foundation, on the otherhand, has been down for a week.
Has the government extended its “all-out war” into cyberspace?
Crimes rings, not hackers, are the true internet villains today. Does government count as crime ring?
kofigurl said,
August 13, 2006 @ 1:36 pm
Hmm, I thought the whole ICANN debate was still ongoing but I see that the government has finally made its move on this.
Denying information coming from opposition groups underscores the government’s growing fear of varied political undertones. It’s also insenstive to the reality that different people receive this kind of information differently. It’s not fair game if we consider how certain political notions are relative. If government’s goal upon imposing this is to prevent more ideological or political variation (those aside pro-government) in people who are deemed malleable for such upon access, then they’re killing a part of what’s healthy about our current political scene: a thinking and a well-informed civil society.
It just brings to question whether or not the government should have the power to decide which bodies of thought are valid or not. Especially in the realm of the information superhighway we all know as the internet. When you think about it, this extension of an “all-out-war” undermines the very purpose of the internet.
KikayFairy said,
June 4, 2007 @ 1:32 am
RegisterFly.com won’t release domains registered with them because of the whole ICANN fiasco and hundreds of clients are to suffer. tsktsk.