Netizens used the hastags #YesToRedLipstick and #NoToRedTagging to call out Lt. Gen. Antonio Parlade’s red-tagging of advocates.
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Protecting Digital Space Series Ep 1: Minding Your Security
In this first episode of our Protecting Digital Space series, let’s have a quick review on the importance of digital security. Hosted by REIN TARINAY Rein Tarinay Written by REIN TARINAY and JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Edited by SARAH DE LEON/Tudla Productions
Digital rights advocates to launch Software Freedom Day 2020
Speakers will discuss the challenges faced by the ICT community and the general public in this pandemic, government policies that affect data privacy and security, among others.
IN PHOTOS: Environment groups launch coastal monitoring
The coastal monitoring initiative has exposed the worsening levels of pollution in Manila Bay which no white sand can ever cover-up.
Hostaging The Dead: An emergent trend in the Philippine state terror and war profiteering under Duterte
BY KOBI TOLENTINO Bulatlat.com Under Rodrigo Duterte, the horrendous act of taking dead bodies as hostages seemed to have become part of the military and police’s standard operating protocol. It happens when they deny the remains of alleged armed leftists from claimant families unless the latter has been co-opted. Hunting for bounties in a…
Lloyd Cadena, the influencer who genuinely cared for the poor
He helped victims of the Taal Volcano eruption, gave away relief packs to the community amid the lockdown, and also extended help to our frontliners. Lloyd also has a soft spot for kids. He had been consistently giving away school supplies and even reached out to Aetas in Pampanga.
Netizens express dismay with proposed 12% VAT on online purchases
“12% VAT on digital service providers such as Netflix and Lazada. Why not collect taxes from POGO?”
Bulatlatan: Huntahan kasama si Rey Salinas ng Bahaghari
Huntahan kasama si Rey Salinas | In this week’s episode of Bulatlatan, let’s get to know Bahaghari national spokesperson Rey Salinas’ life story and advocacies.
Minding your digital security amid terror law
By REIN TARINAY MANILA — As terror law takes effect, our digital security is at stake. Community journalists, artists, writers, activists and dissenters are not spared from the law’s dangerous provisions such as surveillance. Critics pointed that the Anti-Terrorism Act violates citizens’ constitutional right to privacy as surveillance and wiretapping are allowed. In a time of…
Bulatlatan Q & A | Huntahan with Rey Salinas
“Hindi natin kayang maghintay at hindi natin kailangang maghintay. Kailangan natin na lumahok sa malawakang laban para patalsikin ang isang pabaya, pahirap at pasistang diktador na si Duterte at hindi kami takot mula sa Bahaghari na sabihin na kailangan na nating palitan ang sistema na mapang-api, ang sistema na nagpapahirap lamang sa sambayanang Pilipino.”
Bulatlatan Q & A | Of rights and wrongs: Free speech and ‘Terror Law’
“At ‘yun ang sinasabi ko palaging dapat panghawakan ‘yung aral ng kasaysayan. Dumaan na tayo dito at tayo’y nagwagi. Wala akong dahilan para maniwalang hindi natin mauulit ‘yan. Lakas ng tao ‘yan, lakas ng bayan ‘yan. Lakas ng sambayanan.”