Esperon uses anti-terror law to block websites including news site
Esperon uses anti-terror law to block websites including news site
National Security Adviser (Ret) Gen. Hermogenes
Esperon Jr.
(Henz Austria/Senate PRIB)
By Lian Buan
MANILA, Philippines – Outgoing National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr. managed to get the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) to block access to 28 websites, including leading alternative news site Bulatlat.
Esperon wrote NTC Commissioner Gamaliel Cordoba on June 6 requesting the commission to “order Philippine Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to block access to the following websites affiliated to and are supporting these terrorists and terrorist organizations,” a copy of which was released Wednesday, June 22.
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