I remember way back during the 6th National Youth Parliament, the Committee on ICT which I chaired back then passed a resolution for the passage of a bill in Congress known as the National Filtering System.  This system will filter content which are deemed not for public consumption.  The filtering system however will only be installed in internet cafes, schools, and other public internet stations.  I lobbied this to the members of the committee since I believe that private citizens should have the right to choose their content and that making the censorship encompassing will be tantamount to the constitutional right to information and to the privacy of the individual.

This piece of writing is not in anyway a position of the Philippine Internet Users Society (PIUS) but a personal opinion of mine.

First, I would like to congratulate the Congress of the Philippines for the passage of House Bill 6440 otherwise known as the Anti-Child Pornography Bill.  It is indeed a landmark bill which puts the child at the helm of protection.  A protection which the child deserves and was even enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child by the United Nations.