Category: Media

Philippine online activists step up battle versus ‘pwede na yan’ anti-cybercrime laws

September 27, 2012September 27, 2012 benign0 11 Comments

Hysterics around the enactment and implementation of the Philippines’ Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 (Republic Act 10175) continue to sweep the country’s community of social media “activists”. The new law itself is just another example of Filipinos’ renowned jeepney approach to facing its challenges — another Pinoy-style pwede-na-yan solution (in my colleague Mike Portes’s words)…

Crime, Lifestyle, Media, Society

Allan Bantiles: Parent who allegedly threatened CSA student at gunpoint still at large

September 25, 2012 benign0 33 Comments

Colegio de San Agustin (CSA) student Jaime Garcia who was the alleged victim of a serious bullying and assault incident within the CSA campus has been seeking assistance from the Philippine Media to progress his cause versus his tormentors. Garcia’s grandmother, Sony Lopez Gonzales, started by bringing the matter to the attention of ABS-CBN personality…

Crime, Education, Media

How to explain Pinoy Pride to a foreigner

September 22, 2012March 27, 2014 FallenAngel 158 Comments

Jessica Sanchez, one of the latest symbols of Pinoy Pride, came to the Philippines for the American Idol finalists’ concert last Friday, September 21. Now if you all remember who Charice (Pempengco) is, her manager Courtney Blooding came out with a rather innocent and innocuous tweet where she asked “why do the Philippines claim Jessica…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Media

National Press Club, Your Freudian Slip Is Showing

September 20, 2012August 14, 2014 Gogs 20 Comments

freudian slip freud·i·an slip Noun: An unintentional error regarded as revealing subconscious feelings. We don’t know anything for sure (is that libel) but a Freudian slip is what seems to have happened . The National Press Club initially said that the libel portion of the Cybercrime Act was “society’s weapon against bloggers”. They had since…

Culture, Media, Politics, Society

Rappler.com in bed with SMART in social media promo

September 19, 2012August 7, 2013 benign0 5 Comments

What exactly is the mission of “social news network” organisation Rappler.com? Is it to inform the public? Or is it to make news? I read about the most recent event it organised at the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) campus, “the 7th leg of its “Social Media for Social Change Chat Series” today”,…

Education, Media, Money Talks

The latest outrage fad: Protests against the new Philippine anti-cybercrime law have become personal

September 19, 2012 benign0 20 Comments

After scanning online forums and social media discussions in the aftermath of the enactment of Republic Act 10175 also known as the Philippine Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012, one thing has become quite evident: the fear mongering that has erupted around the Act (Jojo Robles in a Manila Standard article, for example wrote that “unprecedented…

Crime, Culture, Lifestyle, Media, Society

Three online writers who may be most at risk of being sued for libel

September 18, 2012July 5, 2017 benign0 71 Comments

Now that Republic Act 10175, also known as the Philippine Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012, has been enacted to law, the question in most people’s minds now is “Who is gonna be sued first?” Here are three of them (or rather three classes of them) that immediately come to mind. * * * (1) The…

Crime, Media

Libel Litmus Test

September 18, 2012 Gogs 26 Comments

“Words as weapons sharper than knives Makes you wonder how the other half die “ INXS The Devil Inside. Much has been made of the Philippine Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012. On the surface some people feared that they can no longer provide or receive sharp opinion. This stems from…