Rome, Italy 25/02/2014
Since the Supreme Court have ruled that the Cybercrime
Prevention Act as constitutional, one may now consider the Art. 4 of the
constitutional as rubbish, and the only medium for the marginated sectors of
our society to express their opinions is opened to repressions by the fascists.
It must not be forgotten that repression has
always been the intent of politicians who crafted and passed the law, and of
the president who signed it in the most hasty and non-transparent manner.
It must not be forgotten that Filipinos just
woke up one day in the grip of this draconian law; and while due to our
collective show of outrage and resistance the court struck down certain
provisions that most brazenly assault our democratic rights (such as the power
to take down websites, real-time collection of traffic data), the law remains
as undemocratic as the institutions that made it.
More than ever, the free
thinking people must resist directly and actively this assault on the freedom
of expression. We need a collective and united front against this repressive
law now, not tomorrow. The corrupt politicians who created and passed it into a law are on the attacking now and
therewill be no tomorrow waiting for us while this law remain in vigor.
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