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Published January 14, 2021, 9:17 AM Local telcos have blocked a total of 5,532 sites to date as they heed the government’s call to combat online child abuse and pornography. Globe Telecom Inc. announced Tuesday night, Jan. 13, it has blocked 2,521 sites to comply with the government’s directive. For their part, PLDT Inc. and Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) took down 3,011 sites that host illicit content featuring children. Under the law, all Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have to install available technology, program or software to block child pornography. To comply with the law, Gl...

I’m sure we’ve all seen the news that Donald Trump has been banned from Twitter, Facebook, Twitch, Shopify, YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok. Pinterest, Discord, and Reddit have similarly cracked down on Trumpy content. Parler, a social network for people that find Twitter insufficiently extreme, has been banned from the Google Play store, and Apple has fired a shot across Parler’s bow that will probably end with the app being banned from the App Store. (Thanks to commenter Wyatt Salamanca for the above link and the reminder to write this post.) Is this good? That is a difficult...

Yves here. Richard Vague describes how exports and manufacturing prowess have long depended on considerable government support for basic research. If the US wants to tame its trade deficit, more Federal funding of foundational R&D is a win-win, because it will also create higher-skilled, well-paid jobs. But the US is allergic to having an industrial policy, even though we have one by default via particular sectors getting lavish tax breaks, subsidies, and direct spending, such as real estate, arms-makers, Big Finance, and health care. By Richard Vague, Acting Secretary of Banking and Securiti...