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Word of the Lourd explains the Cyber Crime Law.

In protest to the new Cybercrime Law that will take effect tomorrow, people are calling for the blackout of their profile photos to protest the bill. Here's a sample. Some have called for their status to be blacked out as well. Like this. ██████ ██████ ██ █████ ██████ ██████ █████████ ███████ █████ ██████████████ █████ ███████ ██████████████ ██████████ ███████ █████. [STATUS BLOCKED] (ʀᴀ ɴᴏ. 10175) this is how our status and comments will look like tomorrow once the cybercrime law takes effect... This law is affecting everyone online. Here is the person everyone is blaming for the insertion of libel in the Cybercrime Bill. And here are the others who supported the bill. Here's the real problem with the new Cybercrime Bill according to TG Guingona . So starting tomorrow, either stand up or watch out what you say online. I can and will be used against you in the court of law.

From We Support Anonymous Philipppines . FB 'likes', shares could be grounds for libel, says Sen. Guingona MANILA, Philippines - Sharing content, or even just clicking the 'Like' button on Facebook, may be grounds for libel under the recently enacted Cybercrime Prevention Act. But Senator Teofisto Guingona III said Thursday the law is so broad and vague it isn't clear who can or should be sued. “The law is very broad,” Guingona, who opposes the new law, said. “If you click like, you can be sued, and if you share, and continuously re-share information, you can also be sued. Saka sino ang liable? Hindi klaro eh. ‘Yung original na nag-post? ‘Yung nag-share? ‘Yung nag-tweet? Kahit nga ikaw, mag-post ka ng simpleng ‘hehehe’ di ba? Ibig sabihin nu’n, sangayon ka (And who is liable? It isn’t clear. The one who made the original post? The ones who share? The ones who tweet. Even you, if you post a simple, ‘hehehe,’ right? Does that mean you agree)? Are you liable? So...

From the Philippine Daily Inquirer . A Quezon City court has sentenced to life imprisonment a laborer accused of stealing P1.2 million from a man and then killing him and his housemaid after a 6-year-old girl positively identified him as the man whom she saw strangling one of the victims. In a 27-page decision promulgated recently, Judge Bayani Vargas of the Quezon City Regional Trial Court Branch 219 found Jaime Elpidang guilty of robbery with homicide. Vargas also ordered Elpidang to pay the heirs of Samuel Allan Sy and his housemaid, Vilma Ciruela, a total of P320,000 and P120,000 in damages, respectively. The judge said he based his decision on the testimony of the young girl who told the court that she saw Elpidang strangle Ciruela inside Sy’s house in May 2004. The girl said she witnessed the killing from her hiding place. In his ruling, Vargas downplayed Elpidang’s defense that he was not the one who killed Sy and Ciruela as he pointed out that a child’s testimony is sometimes s...

Read this report from the Philippine Daily Inquirer. It says that in the mid-year report, the Ombudsman 94 of the 194 person whose cases was resolved were acquitted. The cases filed against 44 respondents were dismissed without going to trial and 13 were dismissed during trial. The Office of the Ombudsman also withdrew 11 cases this year. Responding to these reports, the Office of the Ombudsman reported that in 2008 a high of 73 percent conviction rate claiming that 406 resulted in convictions while only 147 resulted in acquittals. But it turns out, according to the Philippine Daily Inquirer, that 221 of the 406 convictions in 2008 actually involved just one person, a mayor in Quezon province found guilty of ursurpation of official functions of the DENR for issuing permits to transport forest products. Not a very effective prosecutors are they? They very good at prosecuting small time cases from far away provinces, but none of the big graft and corruption case are ever successful in...

I was reading this article on the Philippine Daily Inquirer about a construction crane that fell from a building and hit a car below on Topaz Road near Robinson's Galleria almost killing the passengers which included an infant and a grandmother. The only protection for the construction was a catchment net to protect passing vehicles and pedestrians from falling debris. The company who was running the crane offered to pay to replace the damaged car. The writer goes on to say how this kind of settlement shows how primitive the state of the tort liability law of the Philippines and its enforcement. He also said that the measly settlement was an insult to the victims and the public. In the US, if something like this happens, the settlement would have been in the millions. The lawsuit would have been for criminal negligence and punitive damages. Based on what the writer said, the problem the Philippines doesn't have a stronger tort law is the fear that the Philippines might become ...