Updated November 26, 2025, 9:55 a.m.

Here’s the timeline of Bulatlat’s fight against website blocking, one of the forms of state-sponsored censorship the media outfit faced in recent years. Since June 2022, twenty-seven websites of media outfits, progressive groups and revolutionary organizations have been blocked in the Philippines by virtue of a government order.

Bulatlat questioned the constitutionality of the National Telecommunications memorandum and filed a complaint for nullification of the order in July 2022. After three years of trial, Bulatlat won the case against state censorship.

The National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers represented the media outfit in this strategic litigation for press freedom and free exppression.

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