If you were trying to check out throwback videos of celebrity Maria Ozawa recently on your favorite porn site in the previous hours, you’ve probably seen the message above displayed instead of their home page. Yep, it looks like the government has started blocking porn sites in the Philippines, joining other countries in the region like Indonesia and Malaysia in restricting access to adult content.
Interestingly the National Telecommunications Commission has not issued a notice on it, and the blocked sites in question state that the move is in accordance with Republic Act No. 9775, or the anti-child pornography law.
The block hasn’t been applied equally though across all ISPs – some members of our team can still access these, uh, “art films” on home broadband, while the author can no longer access them via Smart LTE.
