73% of Filipinos believe uncensored Internet is important

A recently released report by Pew Research Center has shown that 73% of Filipinos believe that it is important for the people to have access to the Internet without censorship or government interference.

PRC’s report examines whether people in emerging and developing economies think it is important that people have access to the Internet without government censorship. The surveys were conducted in 24 countries including the Philippines.

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Image credit: Statista via Mashable

When asked with the question “How important is it to you that people have access to the internet without government censorship – very important, somewhat important, not too important or not important at all?”, 35% responded that it is ‘Very important’, while 38% responded that is ‘Somewhat important’, leading us to a total of 73%. As for the remaining, 23% responded that it is not important, while 4% offered no opinion. This puts us at rank with Malaysia but way below Venezuela’s level of advocacy at 89%.

What do you guys think of the report? Do you think its important for us Filipinos to have access to the Internet without any interference from the government? Share your thoughts below.

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Diangson Louie

This article was written by Louie Diangson, Managing Editor of YugaTech. You can follow him at @John_Louie.

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15 Comments

Yuj says:

11 years ago

73% of Filipinos? How many filipinos have access to the internet and would be eligible for this statistical claim?
Maybe 73% of those who have access to the internet is more like it.
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pong says:

11 years ago

Di ba unconstitutional yung order ng NTC nang pang filter ng websites sa mga ISP? need nila nang court order para doon hinde lang block lang nang block.
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tarugo02 says:

11 years ago

Heto talaga dakilang plagiarism… Image ng mashable ninakaw to the max…
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wew says:

11 years ago

Bat d mo sila kasuhan sa nbi?hindi ung panay ang dada mo papansin k lng e.
tarugo02 says:

11 years ago

Biglang nagkaroon ng image credit… Kung di nacriticize na nagplagiarized, di gagawin…

abuzalzal says:

11 years ago

Porn censorship could spark more censorship, ang siste diyan pag naumpisahan na, dagdag na ng dagdag ang NTC/Telco ang pwede nilang i-censor, not always necessarily pornography per se. Torrentsites, for example could be their next target.

It is extremely important to keep our internet freedom intact
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jrmagtago says:

11 years ago

well tama ka parang sunod sunod nilang i-target na ipasasara/block ang mga websites pero gagawa tayo ng paraan para ma-access pa rin iyan lalo nat kung ma-block na pati social media which is our part of freedom of speech.Btw,nakakairita ang sinabi ng taga-NBI na gustong i ban lahat ng online game ukol sa topic na internet online game addiction lalo na ng mga menor de edad dahil pag ginawa iyon ay babagsak ang ekonomiya natin dahil tatamaan nito ang mga negosyante at internet users kaya di natin gusto iyon na suggestion nila na katangahan at katamaran kundi magpa classified ng mga online games na ano dapat ang laruin ng adult lalo nat sa minor at hindi ban ng mga sinasuggest ng mga tangang gobyerno.

Hen-Sheen says:

11 years ago

Netflix wants the aid of the U.S. Government in promoting net neutrality by making their movies pay per view. I would like to point out that too much freedom in the internet is also not good for society; A Task Force would be created out of the ashes to monitor every user whether thier I.P.’s are in Stealth mode or not…
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gino says:

11 years ago

let’s take out the music industry by banning CDs in the mall since there are people who pirates a god damn CD
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Hen-Sheen says:

11 years ago

Instead, make CD, DVD, Blu-Ray players unaccessible to Pirated Media by creating a Lock-Out chip or program. They did it on PS Vita. It would be a matter of time before Pirated Stuff becomes extinct!

Peter says:

11 years ago

why wont government officials instead spend their time on creating laws to make internet connection faster rather than who-knows-what-for censorship and other no use laws.
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wew says:

11 years ago

gumawa ng batas para mapabilis ang internet.. waw.. anung sorcery yun?

rafer says:

11 years ago

damn right. the internet should always be uncensored. if there is shit in the internet, let’s say, child porn and shit, then punish the guy who published that said child porn shit and not the internet. the internet is a great thing, only problem is that there are a lot of dumbasses fucking things up.
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abuzalzal says:

11 years ago

You cannot censor child porn because nobody hosts child porn.

Sa underground nag-ooperate ang mga yan, tsaka they disguise their files kung gusto nilang ikalat sa internet
eric jay says:

11 years ago

wow! couldn’t agree more.

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