The fresh milestone comes just after PLDT and Smart formalized their membership into the UK-based Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) last month. The latest list of 983 offensive links came from the IWF’s database, which can now be accessed by PLDT and Smart.
Sen. Risa Hontiveros has flagged Facebook groups that are used by teenagers to sell sexual videos and images online to fund expenses in online learning.
Sen. Francis "Kiko" Pangilinan on Tuesday, March 2, called out social media giants Facebook and Twitter for their absence in the Senate hearing on online abuse and exploitation of children, describing these platforms as a "crime scene" particularly of fake accounts committing criminal activities.
The Department of Justice has recommended for the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) to penalize ISPs for failing to fulfill their duties under Republic Act No. 9775 or the Anti-Child Pornography Act of 2009.
Child pornography is but one of the slew of abuses against children, now collectively called online sexual exploitation and abuse of children or “OSEAC.”
PLDT-Smart said it already applied for membership at UK-based Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) to gain access to its database of Web pages linked to child porn.
Sen. Loren Legarda has stressed the importance of effective and sustained law enforcement in reducing cases of online trafficking of children for sexual exploitation.