On NTC's shutting down websites linked to CPP-NPA-NDFP

THE National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) pulled the plug on 28 websites that immediate past National Security adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr. had identified as associated with the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP). Since the CPP has been declared a terrorist organization by the government, any affiliate organization is deemed a promoter of terrorism by virtue of association and must be restricted.

The CPP itself, through Twitter, claimed that only seven of the 28 sites had a connection to the party and its political arm, the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) and, I may add, the New People's Army (NPA). The seven websites of this underground trinity that were affected by the NTC order to block access to the internet included, among others, Philippine Revolution Web Central, NDFP.org and websites of less known underground organizations Revolutionary Council of Trade Unions and Revolutionary Organization of Overseas Filipinos and their Families.