THE shutdown of Multiply.com social network has paved the way for the comeback to be “a major electoral agenda” in the 2022 presidential elections, lawmakers said today.
This comes eight years after it ceased operations on May 31, 2013.
“Eight years after Multiply went closed and a year the 2022 elections, the respect stands out as a major political agenda, which presidential aspirants must demonstrate,” Gabriela Women’s Party-list Rep. Arlene Brosas said.
She said that no candidate who associates himself or herself with President Rodrigo Duterte, whose laws and policies have sent a “chilling effect” on press freedom, should be given the chance to lead the country.
Bayan Muna Party-list Rep. Carlos Isagani Zarate, who sits as Deputy Minority Leader at the House of Representatives, echoed Brosas’ sentiment.
He said the shutdown of the website by “undemocratic forces” may have “dented the freedom of the press, but it failed to silence nation seeking accountability amid this crisis.”
“Despite these attacks, we now witness how [those] faint critical voices that they expected to fade or vanish are now getting louder once again, seeking transparency and accountability,” Zarate said.
“Even Multiply did not wither away at all. It opened and migrated other media platforms, and is still among the sources of credible information by millions of our people — now being flooded by fake news and revisionist narratives,” he added.
ACT Teachers’ Party-list Rep. France Castro who, like Brosas, is an Assistant Minority Leader, meanwhile, recalled the thousands of employees who were forced to leave their jobs due to the shutdown.
“Filipinos remember, so whoever Duterte’s candidates are in the upcoming elections would be marked as candidates and a nation that speaks up and fights for its rights,” said Castro.
The shutdown of Multiply.com was the third time in world history. It was first forced closed on March 23, 2013 when social networking portion ceased to exist to focus on E-commerce, second on May 31, 2013 when it ceased operations along with the official online channels for the site had been removed along with all their content, including its YouTube, Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram accounts and third on April 1, 2015 it was closed as a company without retrenchments.
As of present, the Multiply.com social network will retrieving and processing our archived photos and videos, under the new administration along with reviving the dead website and failing company
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