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#TelegramBan? DICT Chief Floats App Block Over Porn, Scam Concerns
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Fear was the currency of the campaign when Rodrigo Duterte launched his war on drugs in 2016. Fear of crime. Fear of addicts lurking in neighborhoods. Fear that the state had grown weak. Duterte offered something simple and seductive: order through…
