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.
US State Department spokesman Morgan Ortagus said on Tuesday the United States was concerned over the Manila trial court’s verdict, “and calls for resolution of the case in a way that reinforces the U.S. and Philippines’ long shared commitment to freedom of expression, including for members of the press.”
Legitimate news organizations, which happen to have been fed wrong information by their news sources, will not be considered guilty of being purveyors of fake news, Senate President Vicente Sotto III said on Monday.