Before Fr Jejemon, there was Fr Bean

jhay — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 05:03:41 +0000

According to a report by the Inquirer, senior Church leaders have forced Philippine King of Comedy Dolphy to edit his upcoming movie ‘Fr Jejemon‘ and remove the offending scenes:

First was the scene where he was giving out the sacred host to mass goers and Dolphy accidentally dropping the host on to the woman’s cleavage. Another scene showed the host being stuck in a woman’s dentures.

Before there was Dolpy’s ‘Fr. Jejemon’, there was Fr. Bean, as in British comedic genius Rowan Atkinson doing the same thing – using the host in a comedic performance.

The video was posted in YouTube last 2008 but the live performance took place before that, and lo, the Church did not lift a finger and called for a censorship of Rowan Atkinson.

After that sketch by Rowan Atkinson, there were numerous other performances that involved priests and religious items in the act.

So why zoom in on Dolphy now? The CBCP may cry foul all they want, even tell parishioners not to see ‘Fr. Jejemon’ when its premiered, but to actually demand those scenes be edited out of the movie?

Last time I checked, the Filipino bishops were not movie censors tasked by law to give ratings to movies and television shows. That’s what the MTRCB is for.

So again, our dear Bishops have forgotten about the Constitutionally-protected freedom of the press and expression.

Then again, it’s not so much surprising since they could easily forget about morals when they accept donations from state-sanction gambling activities but completely go berserk about jueteng. ‘Nuff said.

My Gmail for domain-based email is blocked by DLSUD

jhay — Sun, 18 May 2008 04:57:52 +0000

I’m stunned. Ever since the last school year ended, my Gmail-powered domain-based email account is blocked inside De La Salle University – Dasmarinas‘ content filtering system. This dastardly act of evil is evidenced by the screencap below:

The University uses DansGuardian as its content filtering system within its local area network. Basically it:

DansGuardian is an award winning Open Source web content filter which currently runs on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Mac OS X, HP-UX, and Solaris. It filters the actual content of pages based on many methods including phrase matching, PICS filtering and URL filtering. It does not purely filter based on a banned list of sites like lesser totally commercial filters.

DansGuardian is designed to be completely flexible and allows you to tailor the filtering to your exact needs. It can be as draconian or as unobstructive as you want. The default settings are geared towards what a primary school might want but DansGuardian puts you in control of what you want to block.

According to DansGuardian, my email is blocked because it found a banned phrase in the URI “http://mail.google.com/a/jrocas.com.ph/” the strange thing is, what is the “banned phrase” in this URI? Is it “mail.google.com/a/” or my domain “jrocas.com.ph”?

If it’s Google the ITC department is blocking, why then can anyone else access their Gmail accounts? And why would the school block access to Google from inside campus? Is the Chinese government the new owners of DLSUD now?

Now if it is my own domain “http://jrocas.com.ph” that they’re blocking, how come I could have full access my blog using the school’s computers? If they are really blocking my domain, what’s their reason? Is it because I’m starting to blog more about my criticisms of the University’s administration or is it because I’m known at campus to be one of the very few left-leaning activists who are anti-GMA? (I know a handful of faculty and school administrators who are die-hard pro-GMA’ers.)

On top of all this, isn’t it an act of stifling my rights to freedom of expression and access to information? Hmmm, this is really driving me nuts as denying me access to my email is like taking away half of my brain. Now that the new school year is about to open and my activities both inside and outside the classroom will soon pick up again, I would really need access to my email using the school’s network of which I pay for with my tuition money!

Now I know some of the good people from the ITC department reads this blog once and a while, and if you do, please get in touch with me regarding this matter, and please respond to the email I sent. Lastly, unblock my e-mail account please!

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Before Fr Jejemon, there was Fr Bean

My Gmail for domain-based email is blocked by DLSUD