This manipulation and exploitation of our legal system has got to stop. Power to abuse is the very essence of abuse of power. The Constitution is not a piece of clay that one can shape or bend to follow an official’s sinister purpose.
It’s 2022, humanity should’ve matured by now, leaving behind laws that are not only draconian, but primitive. Are we to remain as cavemen?
Senator Risa Hontiveros filed a bill aiming to decriminalize libel amid the cyber libel conviction of veteran journalist Frank Cimatu.
Ramon Tulfo, a newspaper columnist and former special envoy for public diplomacy to China, was arrested Wednesday for cyber libel, Manila Police District (MPD) director Police Brigadier General Leo Francisco said.
Rappler Executive Editor Maria Ressa, whom President Rodrigo Duterte accused of being “a fraud” in a state broadcast Wednesday, said the president’s remarks were “hilarious and sad.”