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The Freedom on the Net 2024 by the Freedom House scored the Philippines 60 out of 100, classifying its internet freedom status as "partly free". [31] The Freedom House in its 2013 report said that it did not receive reports that officials are pressuring bloggers or online journalists to delete content deemed critical to the authorities.
The Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) is a private, non-stock, non-profit foundation in the Philippines that has focused its endeavor on press freedom protection along with the establishment of a framework of responsibility for its practice. Its programs represent efforts to protect the press as well as to promote professional ...
Many of these media watchdogs [43] have issued statements placing the ABS-CBN broadcast stoppage in the context of systemic attacks against press freedom in the Philippines. [43] [45] Media groups and people's organizations denounced the shutdown order for being a loss of democracy, freedom of expression, and freedom of the press. [46] [47]
A United Nations expert urged the Philippines on Friday to do more to curb the killings of journalists and supported abolishing an anti-communism task force whose actions suppress the freedom of ...
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Many of these media watchdogs [51] have issued statements placing the ABS-CBN broadcast stoppage in the context of systemic attacks against press freedom in the Philippines. [51] [52] Media groups and people's organizations denounced the shutdown order for being a loss of democracy, freedom of expression, and freedom of the press. [53] [54]
Violence against journalists, netizens, and media assistants, including abuses attributable to the state, armed militias, clandestine organizations or pressure groups, are monitored by RSF staff during the year and are also part of the final score. A higher score on the report corresponds to greater freedom of the press as reported by the ...
Reaction to the case was mixed. Before the verdict in April 2020, the annual Press Freedom Index report by Reporters Without Borders ranked the Philippines 136 out of 180 countries in terms of press freedom. [63] Historically, since the end of martial law under Ferdinand Marcos, the Philippines was regarded as having one of the most free ...