Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Half-baked, Virus Deletion in Progress

“Threats found!”

And the cyberworld cringes. The seemingly  unbridled virus passed  judgement to every unknowing  outlaw who managed to live in an era of peace until now. Or was it?

Law puts everything into order. In inverse proportionality, the enactment of the Republic Act 10175 or the Anti Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 proved the latter wrong. As an action results to an equal but opposite reaction,  it spawned chaos in heightened levels all-over the Archipelago and even in the international vista.  Protests from all sectors flooded social media of all platforms, hackers rendered their so –called duty accomplished and the netizens staged an all-out black parade.

The law  has its pros. Not only true to Filipinos, humans have ostensibly forgotten a vital element of democracy; that any one’s right ends when another’s starts. This twisted light upshots the likes of identity theft, fraud and cyber bullying which crawls deep into every byte to exist in the digital abode. As it has been underlined to purify the perceived cyberworld, the Anti Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 was put to the forefront apparently half-baked.

The word in itself cannot stand up to what the “cyberworld” encompasses as one may be lost in its intricacy. It is a complex lattice of cultures that threatening to govern it with a law ill-equipped is a slap on one’s own face.

It is easy to become dubious witnessing the very minds who greased the bill’s passage doubt the same provisions that it flaunts. The inclusion of a libel clause with a greater punishment than libel in traditional media is outright oppressive and even piles grave chances of double jeopardy for breaking both laws. It curtails the right to express in ways that others  don’t understand. Filipinos, who prove to be happy-go-lucky can now caress cold bars for criticizing a friend , which may appear libellous to a different audience, but to a clique a normal behavior. It proves the law indistinct and sets no limitation to liability.

The same libel provision becomes tainted in malice as it appears as a blanket of protection woven by minds who wants to shut other curious minds that has an even greater voice in the world wide web. It is funny and yet shameful that the law draws attention from the  United Nations Human Rights Committee asking for the law to be repealed.

To lever the security of Filipinos through the legislation of the Republic Act 10175 being new is utterly overwhelming. But its implementation is another. The Internet as multifaceted as it is challenges the power of this law to govern in its virtual arenas. A cyber bullying case of a Filipino whose bully is traced to be from a different country governed by a different set of laws will put the clout of this bill into vain. It has yet to be further considered and it is a must to prepare law enforcers and the nation it rules as to how magnanimous the duty is.

As it is difficult even to maintain a blog, it would be even difficult to pick out suspected obstruction of this law. First off is to clear the ego-filled cache and delete the personal viruses of  the minds that has obstinately dominated the house from which laws spring from.

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