00:00Last week's order by the Banco Central on e-wallet firms to cut off hyperlinks with online gambling sites
00:07has led to some 8,900 of them removed from legitimate e-wallet activities.
00:12A huge first battle won, but far from the war being over as these thousands of exile gambling sites
00:18have sought refuge in social messaging and e-commerce platforms to include the dark web,
00:24where finding them will be increasingly difficult in this report.
00:30Online platforms that serve as tools for illegal online gaming may be banned.
00:36This was emphasized by the Department of Information and Communications Technology, or DICT.
00:43This comes after the linking of e-pay wallets from online gambling sites.
00:49According to Secretary Henry Aguda, they are monitoring the migration of these activities to other platforms.
00:56He said their goal is to eliminate these activities.
01:03He said their goal is to eliminate these activities where they found links and even recruitment activities.
01:29Apart from this, they have also coordinated with Facebook to clean up the social media site from online gambling.
01:37He added that a challenge with these operations is that they repeatedly re-emerge,
01:42which is why their removal efforts continue to non-stop.
01:46Senator Irwin Tulfo earlier stressed that those found behind online gambling are doubling their efforts to migrate to other platforms,
01:54such as online messaging apps and e-commerce platforms.
01:58According to Tulfo, there is still a long way to go in the fight against the accessibility of online gambling,
02:05hence the need to coordinate with the private sector and other stakeholders for a concrete response.
02:11Meanwhile, his brother, Senator Rafi Tulfo, insisted that there should be no electronic or online options for this.
02:18You have to have to work with no wallet, Emmy lore?
02:25You don't have any emotional Picasso?
02:28You want to have a boxing machine, please go to a MacArt?
02:29You want to go to arageondo?
02:30You want to go to a restaurant.
02:31You want to go to a mall?
02:34You need to go to a mall?
02:36You need to be automatically from the electronics.
02:40Meanwhile, the DICT continues to conduct an investigation on reported online gambling activities happening through e-commerce platforms.
02:49The secretary said that this week they may release the results or information from their ongoing investigations.
03:09William Theo for the National TV Network for a new and better Philippines.
