What do you think will happen to BoyBastos.com?
Janette Toral
at BoyBastos.com and the site owner also change the domain name
registration and put it under the Senator. (astig siya ah!)
What do you think will happen to that site and to the site owner?
P.S. On the side, I hope you can join the Filipina Writing Project at
http://w3o.blogspot.com
Janette Toral
NEWS RELEASE
Rep. Joseph A. Santiago (Lone District, Catanduanes)
Chairman, committee on information and communications technology
Room 519, South Wing, House of Representatives
Batasang Pambansa Complex, Q.C. Contact: Atty. Lyle Surtida @ Tel:
931-6055
As boybastos.com goes offline
September 7, 2007
Solon backs Legarda in fight vs. "sex portal"
Catanduanes Rep. Joseph Santiago, chairman of the House committee on
information and communications technology, is supporting Sen. Loren
Legarda in the war on computer pornography.
"We wholly support the fight against online pornography," Santiago
said not long after Legarda urged the Inter-Agency Council Against
Trafficking and the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to crack
down on boybastos.com, said to be the country's top online porn
portal.
A few hours after Legarda attacked boybastos.com through the media,
the portal shutdown its "free and open" gallery of some 20,000 mostly
lewd photographs of Filipino women and girls. A notice posted on the
site reads: "Gallery currently offline -- come back soon."
Not long thereafter, apparently still unable to stand the heat,
boybastos.com shutdown its entire site, save for some links to fee-
based porn sites abroad.
"The decision of boybastos.com to close down its electronic gallery of
Filipino women and girls indicates guilt, and that its administrator
is fearful of the potential legal consequences of the (site's) lewd
materials," Santiago said.
Santiago also said the NBI could find ways to remove the domain name
boybastos.com with the help of Network Solutions Inc., a US company
that registers and manages domain names.
"We've checked the domain name boybastos.com. It is registered with
Network Solutions. The original domain name registrant is traceable,
even if they tampered with the online listing on the day Senator
Legarda assailed the site, and put in her name as registrant,
apparently in a feeble attempt to mock her," Santiago said.
"The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has already managed to get
Network Solutions to remove several domain names used by pedophiles to
traffic in child porn," Santiago said.
"The NBI can make a case that the porn site has been violating
existing Philippine laws against obscenity and child sexual
exploitation. This can then be used to persuade Network Solutions to
remove the domain name boybastos.com," Santiago added.
"This may not entirely solve the problem, but this would at least set
them back, in the same manner that the senator's complaint forced the
site to shut off its porn gallery of Filipino women and girls,"
Santiago said.
Santiago said his staff checked out boybastos.com's gallery shortly
before the site went offline, and "it definitely included lewd
photographs of Asian-looking children."
To discourage the abuse of otherwise highly useful modern technology,
Santiago stressed the need for the authorities and even service
providers themselves to be extra vigilant.
"For instance, there are ways for Internet cafés to purposely ward off
a pre-determined list of porn sites, if and when a minor wants to use
a (shop) computer," Santiago said.
Nowadays, he noted that children are among the most avid Internet shop
visitors, mainly for gaming and other recreational activities.
Janette Toral
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/59587/
Daniel Escasa
> > boybastos.com with the help of Network Solutions Inc., a US company
> > that registers and manages domain names.
> >
> > "We've checked the domain name boybastos.com. It is registered with
> > Network Solutions. The original domain name registrant is traceable,
> > even if they tampered with the online listing on the day Senator
> > Legarda assailed the site, and put in her name as registrant,
> > apparently in a feeble attempt to mock her," Santiago said.
Of course the original registrant is traceable. whois says:
Registrant:
Loren Legarda (BOYBASTOS-COM-DOM)
209 Dingalan St
Ayala Alabang Village
Muntinlupa, Metro Manila 1780
Philippines
8288830
mark...@hotmail.com
Domain Name: BOYBASTOS.COM
Administrative Contact:
Mark Verzo mark...@hotmail.com
209 Dingalan St
Ayala Alabang Village
Muntinlupa, Metro Manila 1780
Philippines
8288830
Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
Mark Verzo mark...@hotmail.com
209 Dingalan St
Ayala Alabang Village
Muntinlupa, Metro Manila 1780
Philippines
8288830
Record last updated on 05-Sep-2007.
Record expires on 14-Mar-2008.
Record created on 14-Mar-2004.
While the domain is supposedly registered to Sen Loren, the admin and
tech contacts are still what I presume to be the original registrant.
Contact address and phone number are there too.
--
Daniel O. Escasa
independent IT consultant and writer
contributor, Free Software Magazine (http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com)
personal blog at http://descasa.i.ph
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