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Scrap the NTC order! No to ABS-CBN Shutdown

Scrap the NTC order! No to ABS-CBN Shutdown

STATEMENT The National Telecommunications Commission’s order to shutdown broadcast network ABS-CBN is unconstitutional and an assault to the people’s right to information. The order is contrary to the recommendation of Congress to issue a provisional license for the...

#WorldPressFreedomDay: Locking down press freedom

#WorldPressFreedomDay: Locking down press freedom

STATEMENT A turn for the worse – this best describes how the fundamental freedoms of speech, expression, and of the press have been abridged in the past months, with the attacks against press freedom escalating amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, May 3, as the world...

Prior restraint, again

Prior restraint, again

STATEMENT At a time when the whole of Philippine society must come together to address the worst public health crisis in decades, the Duterte administration is instead engaged in abridging the people’s right to know. With the national government’s implementation of...

The Anti-Terrorism Bill: Legislating the quelling of dissent

The Anti-Terrorism Bill: Legislating the quelling of dissent

STATEMENT Senate Bill 1083 or the 'Anti-Terrorism' Bill, recently approved on third and final reading by the Upper Chamber, is – for all intents and purposes – the Duterte administration’s penultimate attack against the Filipino people, the last piece in the puzzle...

Altermidya denounces latest red-tagging of journalists

Altermidya denounces latest red-tagging of journalists

They are at it again: harassing and maliciously red-tagging journalists, including veteran journalist and AlterMidya host Inday Espina-Varona, Nonoy Espina of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP), Froilan Gallardo of Mindanews, and several...

Parties to cyberattacks case reach agreement

(Joint Statement: Alipato Media Center for Bulatlat, Altermidya Network, Kodao Productions, Pinoy Media Center Inc. for PinoyWeekly, Plaintiffs; and IP Converge Data Services Inc., Ernesto R. Alberto, Nerissa S. Ramos, Anabelle L. Chua, Juan Victor I. Hernandez,...

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