OVER the shut-down of sites supposedly supportive of government, including pages of government agencies meant to stir people against the communist New People’s Army, President Rodrigo Duterte poised the threat of government sanctions on Facebook, including making it inaccessible from the Philippines.

The Philippines will not be the first. The People’s Republic of China has never allowed its nationals to access Facebook.

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