Globe is strengthening its online safety safeguards and blocking hundreds of websites that promote or depict extreme violence — including content related to school shootings — as part of broader efforts to protect children and young people from harmful digital material.
The telecommunications firm noted network-level blocking has long been a core part of its safety framework. In 2025 alone, it blocked 438,446 domains and URLs carrying child sexual abuse and exploitation materials (CSAEM), backed by over US$2.7 million invested in advanced content filtering and blocking systems. Globe has also expanded protections beyond standard requirements, covering non-photographic exploitative imagery and, since August 2024, AI-generated child sexual abuse materials.
In response to recent acts of extreme violence, Globe is now blocking hundreds of additional sites that host or stream illegal gore content and violence-inducing content, in alignment with official orders from Philippine government agencies.
“We have a responsibility to help make the online environment safer, especially for children and young people. As new risks emerge, we need to keep looking at what more we can do. The recent school shooting incident is one opportunity where the industry can work together by removing sites that induce violence in our networks. At Globe, we are ready to do our part and protect children online,” said Atty. Froilan Castelo, Globe General Counsel.
The company continues to collaborate with government bodies and both local and international partners — including the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) and the Canadian Centre for Child Protection (C3P) — to identify and restrict harmful content. As digital threats evolve, Globe said it will further strengthen its safeguards and support a coordinated, cross-industry response to emerging online risks.
This action reinforces the growing role of telecom providers as key partners in enforcing digital safety standards, going beyond minimum legal requirements to address emerging harms such as AI-generated abuse material and violence-radicalizing content. It sets a benchmark for private-sector leadership, while highlighting the need for unified government, industry, and global cooperation to keep pace with evolving online threats.
