Feb. 18, 2019The government’s persecution of Maria Ressa and Rappler, the latest of which is the Department of Justice’s brazen perversion of the law to allow their prosecution for cyber libel, underscores the urgent need to decriminalize the offense.It is bad enough...
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Philstar takedown: The chilling effect of government’s perversion of the law
Feb. 17, 2019 The decision of Philstar.com to take down the 2002 article "Influential businessman eyed in ex-councilor's slay" is an inevitable consequence of this government’s, through the Department of Justice and the National Bureau of Investigation, twisting the...
Rappler cyberlibel indictment endangers freedom of the press, expression
It is extremely unfortunate, though not surprising, that the Department of Justice has approved the filing of a cyber libel case against Rappler and its CEO Maria Ressa and former researcher Reynaldo Santos Jr. While we are confident that Rappler can competently...