MERGED: All about Anti-Cybercrime Law, related issues and developments

[haroldjizdeortega]

careful nata mga gurlz kay naa nay law.

[eezychair]

This is worse than martial law:

JGBernasSJ Blogs: WHAT'S FRIGHTENING ABOUT CYBERCFRIME LAW?

excerpts:

Libel has been decriminalized in other civilized jurisdictions. Our legislature, instead, will throw us back to the dark ages by imposing a higher penalty for libel. In effect, advance in communication technology is being treated not as a boon but as bane.
Section 7 says: “A prosecution under this Act shall be without prejudice to any liability for violation of any provision of the Revised Penal Code, as amended, or special laws.” This is a clear invitation, if not to double jeopardy, at least to harassment through threat of a second prosecution. If you are thinking that second prosecution for the same offense is just an invention of American jurisprudence, guess again. Even under Spanish law it was already prohibited by the Fuero Real and the Siete Partidas. Secion 7 is once again a throwback to the era even before Fuero Real and Siete Partidas were born.
But what is most disturbing to many is section 19 which says: “When a computer data is prima facie found to be in violation of the provisions of this Act, the DOJ shall issue an order to restrict or block access to such computer data.”
There are very valid reasons for being frightened by this. I for one recall the law on search and seizure in effect during the past martial law period. Whereas now no search warrant or warrant of seizure may issue except upon probable cause to be determined by a judge, Section 19, now popularly called the “takedown provision,” does not require probable cause but only prima facie evidence determined not by a judge but by the Department of Justice. This is a throwback to the provision under martial rule when warrants for the search and seizure of persons, houses, papers and effects could be issued by a “responsible officer as may be authorized by law.” Not only that; whereas under the draconian rule of martial law warrants could issue only after “examination under oath of the complainants and witnesses he may provide,” no such safeguard is found in Section 19.

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If you've been through martial law, you'd know this is scary.

[gwaping]

Petition | Junk the Cybercrime Prevention Law! | Change.org petition ta

[W.Axl Rose]

daghang kaayong importante issue sa atong nasud dapat unahon kani gyud giuna ug tuke pastilan................

[voldemort]

nakalusot daw ang online libel provision? pastilan!

Nanghunaw si Dodong Chiz.

[blu bizcuitz]

daghang kaayong importante issue sa atong nasud dapat unahon kani gyud giuna ug tuke pastilan................

ingun ana ka maayong laki atong pang-gobyerno run...

[kageron]

We lack schools, Hospitals and now the government will spend some things like this? tell me a real joke!

[cliff_drew]

When we ask the gov't the right of information yet we had been given a law that suppressed our freedom of expression!

[eax]

Nanghunaw si Dodong Chiz.

Duh!!!! La lang gyud niya gitrabaho na!!!

Kabantay na man gud siya na daghan kaayo ang nag-saba na. Mao na nanghunaw na siya.

[eax]

When we ask the gov't the right of information yet we had been given a law that suppressed our freedom of expression!

Mao ni ang ilang tubag. So dili na tah makapangayo ug information kay ila naman gi-supress daan. For me, from the start dili jud ko bilib ni Abnoy.