Reminders and unwanted legacies
Reminders and unwanted legacies
By Luis V. Teodoro
VANTAGE POINT
BUSINESS WORLD
With only three weeks in office left, National Security Council (NSC) Adviser and Anti-Terrorism Council (ATC) Vice-Chair Hermogenes Esperon ordered the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) on June 6 to block access to the websites of Bulatlat and Pinoy Weekly and those of several civil society and advocacy groups that he alleged “support terrorists and terrorist organizations.”
It was not only a reminder to all, especially the media, of the Duterte regime’s long record of hostility to free expression and press freedom, but also of how much that unwanted legacy has added to the many difficulties responsible journalists and other truth-tellers are already burdened with.
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