I got word that the Philippines seem to take action against webcam "child sex tourism" (WCST), a flourishing business there. From what we know for now, it's between "ridiculous" and "deadly dangerous", a bit like LOPPSI + LPM in France.
The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) issued an order to ISPs, forcing them to set up carrier-level monitoring tools to detect and censor "websites that carry porn, especially child porn". The "especially child porn" is the PR excuse, because the target is porn, all kind of porn.
Unlike the blocking in the UK, this blocking wouldn't be user-level. I smell that it will be DNS blocking. With the same effects than trying to censor The Pirate Bay in the UK or Netherlands. They never learn from their errors. Massive carrier-grade DNS censorship, that's China, Pakistan, Turkey..
Would blocking prevent sexual abuse on children ? I doubt so. Look here:
→ from 2011 to 2013
→ 20 children "rescued"
→ "at least" 10 adults arrested
→→ most of them: parents who "exploited" their children for WCST !!
Now locking the parents away from poor children isn't exactly "rescuing" when it's only about unemployment or lack of universal revenue, but that's a personal point of view.
Let's take a look at the regulation:
"ISPs should install available technology, program or software to ensure that access to or transmittal of any form of child pornography will be blocked or filtered."
May as well turn off the internet in the Philippines. Even "real-time image scanning and keywork searching" like China's "Green Dam Youth Escort" fails to filter it all, and for what a MASSIVE negative impact on freedom !!
« Virtudazo also believes that ISPs should filter email, instant messaging systems and “other means” to transmit porn online » Hahahaha
Last interesting fact: most addressing in the Philippines is NATed IPv4: a single IPv4 address can be used by a whole district or even town. Of course, that's pretty troublesome to find out a single subscriber. NTC is therefor deploying IPv6, where each customer get a single IPv6 per device, or even full address spaces.
Enforcing IPv6 deployment to allow targeted censorship and child porn distributors. I didn't expect that one. And I'm sad they only need this kind of excuse to accelerate IPv6 deployment. Jeez...
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