The Philippines Passes a Cybercrime Prevention Act that Makes SOPA Look Reasonable

[kazeyumi]

The dark days of SOPA and PIPA are behind the US, at least temporarily as copyright tycoons reground and restrategize, attempting to come up with measures that don’t cause the entire internet to shut down in protest.

But one country has already moved ahead with similar legislation. The government of the Philippines has passed the Cybercrime

Comments

[sio]

uggh. what idiots. i hope the Filipinos can stand up to this shit and get it repealed. especially the latter category. if consenting adults want to have cybersex or are interested in pornography, as long as everyone involved is an ADULT, that's their business, not the government's. don't get me started on the file-sharing part. and the online libel stuff is beyond bullshit.

[angelus7988]

Nice icon.

[angelus7988]

“Yes, I did it. I inserted the provision on libel. Because I believe in it and I don’t think there’s any additional harm.”

OIC

[pleasure_past]

Aaaaaaaaah.

Look, every government everywhere, all of this shutting down the internet and protesting business? It gets old fucking fast. So how about we all save each other some headaches and you stop fucking trying to do this shit.

Okay? Okay.

[oudeteron]

I can't.

[wanderinghope]

maybe too late, but here was a petition i saw against this law making its way around tumblr:

http://www.change.org/petitions/junk-the-cybercrime-prevention-law#share