Tag: journalism

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

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

Wanking to lewd Web videos now a crime in the Philippines!

September 17, 2012September 18, 2012 Kate Natividad 33 Comments

Now that there is an anti-Cybercrime law in the Philippines, stuff published online is now subject to the same libel laws that have for some time been applied to stuff published on traditional media like newspapers and magazines and broadcast on TV and radio. I suppose the principle there is that computers and their networks…

Crime, Lifestyle, Tech Talk

Who’s afraid of the Philippine Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012?

September 17, 2012September 18, 2012 benign0 23 Comments

Senate Bill 2796 or the Philippine Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 is not a bad law. Most of the online nasties the law aims to curb are no-brainers. So I will go straight to what, to me, is its main feature that sends chills up the spine of the average schmoe… 4) Libel – The…

Crime, Media

How the media management regime of the Aquino Government mirrors that of Nazi Germany

September 2, 2012January 16, 2019 benign0 91 Comments

Go figure. Certain media outlets like Rappler.com, and its cadre of “online journalists”, for example, seem to have first crack at “reporting” stories about administration “achievements”. The biggest media conglomerate in the country, biggest broadsheet and online news site, and the most popular mass entertainers all seem to exhibit a palpable bias towards the Yellow…

Government, Media, Politics

I Got Friends In Low Places

August 18, 2012 Gogs 26 Comments

I love you you love me we’re a happy family with a great big hug and a kiss from me to you wont you say you love me too! “The Barney Theme Song” I Gogs, of sound mind and body have to declare that today August 18 in the year of our Lord 2012…

Culture, Government, Media

Noynoy Aquino vs Noli de Castro: was it all staged reality TV?

July 30, 2012 benign0 29 Comments

I’m no fan of the way Philippine President Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino III publicly criticised former Vice President Noli de Castro during an event celebrating the 25th anniversary of TV Patrol, the ABS-CBN news program de Castro anchors. But I have to admit that I cannot ignore my own consistent track record of criticising the…

Media, Politics

Why is Rappler CEO Maria Ressa’s Twitter account ‘protected’?

July 7, 2012May 2, 2018 benign0 20 Comments

Look whose Twitter account is set at “Protected”. Ms Maria Ressa who is CEO of “social news network” Rappler.com has set her Twitter profile so that “Only confirmed followers have access to [her] Tweets and complete profile,” and so one needs to “Click the ‘Follow’ button to send a follow request.” Ressa is a self-described…

Lifestyle, Media, Society, Tech Talk