Anti cybercrime law
Topic: Cyber Crime Prevention Act of 2012
Country: Philippines
Delegates: Ms. Kathleen Sanoy, Mr. Marc Andrei Sanque, & Ms. Irish Santos
The Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012, officially recorded as Republic Act No. 10175, is a law that aims to address legal issues concerning online interactions and the internet in the Philippines. Under this law, a person could be sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for posting online comments that is insulting to that person. This law gives the Department of Justice the power to close down websites and monitor online activities without a warrant. It is important because it tackles about commenting, posting things, posting sex videos which includes children, using other names to give bad comments about the person or spread rumor, which directly talks about the person/institution.
This law is temporary suspended and implemented meaning it is not yet a law. Many people is not compliant because it threatens their freedom of speech and also their privacy like papers, documents and even pictures. For us, we’re not also agreed to this law because each of us has their own right to express our thoughts, reactions and feelings in short we have rights to this country and no one can hinder us about that rights. And we don’t want this to become a law because it gives the government too much power. And let say that they can easily block access to computer data and ban a social networking site but how will they do their objective if one not all the cabinet members are agreed to them. And that’s why we have something called democracy meaning all the citizens of our country have an equal to say and they have the right to say no to a bill if it they think that it will not have a good effect on them. We could have agreed to this law if it just includes Cybersquatting, cybersex, identity theft, and child pornography. But when they included Libel, it is already a different thing because libel is a written defamation or a false statement that
Country: Philippines
Delegates: Ms. Kathleen Sanoy, Mr. Marc Andrei Sanque, & Ms. Irish Santos
The Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012, officially recorded as Republic Act No. 10175, is a law that aims to address legal issues concerning online interactions and the internet in the Philippines. Under this law, a person could be sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for posting online comments that is insulting to that person. This law gives the Department of Justice the power to close down websites and monitor online activities without a warrant. It is important because it tackles about commenting, posting things, posting sex videos which includes children, using other names to give bad comments about the person or spread rumor, which directly talks about the person/institution.
This law is temporary suspended and implemented meaning it is not yet a law. Many people is not compliant because it threatens their freedom of speech and also their privacy like papers, documents and even pictures. For us, we’re not also agreed to this law because each of us has their own right to express our thoughts, reactions and feelings in short we have rights to this country and no one can hinder us about that rights. And we don’t want this to become a law because it gives the government too much power. And let say that they can easily block access to computer data and ban a social networking site but how will they do their objective if one not all the cabinet members are agreed to them. And that’s why we have something called democracy meaning all the citizens of our country have an equal to say and they have the right to say no to a bill if it they think that it will not have a good effect on them. We could have agreed to this law if it just includes Cybersquatting, cybersex, identity theft, and child pornography. But when they included Libel, it is already a different thing because libel is a written defamation or a false statement that