Internet censorship, as the name implies, is the repression of information (access and publishing) on the Web. Although attempts of the people’s access to information have been suppressed, it still proves to be impossible. There are just to many lee-ways for public access to information.
In the Philippines, the internet has never been of much concern. Of course, everyone knows of Legarda’s “heroic” closing down of BoyBastos.com. There’s this bill that she made that aims to fight computer pornography in the Philippines. This is another product of idealism doomed to thrive in impossibility.
In other countries, the filtering and suppression of internet content is not as lax. China, for example, totally blocks off sites that has or says anything in its content that may be derogatory to the government. In Singapore, there is no “unjust” moderation of data. There is, however, a strong movement against the illegal sharing of music, games and movies. Also, there has been an incident in which three men were imprisoned for throwing racist remarks. In Burma, things have been taken to an extreme. Any sites of political opposition groups, human rights and the promotion of democracy have been banned. At one point all internet links have been banned even.
The Philippines has been extremely lenient with regard to internet matters. We can freely access whatever we want, illegally download and distribute data, and say whatever we feel like saying. Yay, order!