After the OMB plan of registering our hard drives, now comes NTC for their plan to monitor our internet behavior and also filter illegal sites such as pron and movie downloads. I'm not sure how they can pull it off and as I read in an online discussion, the question was : how will they do it and who will fund it. Our country is not yet ready for this and many people will agree and disagree on the web filter with the help of local ISP and networks. I just heard this news while ago in a local mailing for tech and IT, and its a little bit disturbing.
In the USA, they do monitor their users and I heard from a friend who lives in Chicago that he lost his internet connection after a few minutes of clicking a new James Bond movie via torrent and later on a letter from the ISP was delivered to his home and informed that their account is banned from the connection for illegal download of movies.
I guess monitoring it will work here in the Philippines, but how will they monitor users who uses wifi and that internet stick. I guess the plan is already too late. Or maybe a new system will apply to new users who will apply a new internet connection to their homes. They really have a good intention, and me as starting parent, I really want it, but not everyone will allow them to be monitored and loss privacy.
what's your take on their plan?
link : NTC checks child porn on websites
photo above by Cybergabi
