Thank you, @CIVICUSalliance, for the opportunity to discuss the proposed Digital Media Anti-False Information Act. I spoke about its implications for free expression and the risks of giving government power to police “false” information.
#PHILIPPINES: A proposed anti-disinformation law could give the government sweeping powers to police what counts as 'false' information — and risk silencing dissent. The Digital Media Anti-False Information Act would allow prison sentences of up to 12 years for those found guilty of deliberately spreading false information.
In this interview, Josalee Deinla from @nuplphilippines explains why targeting individuals — rather than the platforms that profit from and amplify disinformation — raises serious concerns, and how civil society is mobilising to oppose the bill.
Read more: https://t.co/qTH5bWNnqU
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concerned about financial integrity, it would have cracked down on the billions laundered through POGOs, the illicit wealth of the political elite, and the corruption within its own ranks—not sacrificed civic space and the civil liberties of its people.
The Marcos administration touts the country’s removal from the FATF grey list as a “well-earned exit,” but at what cost? The so-called ‘seal of good financial housekeeping’ was achieved through a campaign of political persecution, financial repression,..
ordinary Filipinos caught in the web of overregulation and financial surveillance.
What the Marcos government hails as a “victory” is, in reality, a dangerous capitulation to an international financial regime that reinforces economic dependency. If the administration was truly..
ATM: Envi rights activist Eco Dangla, a victim of enforced disappearance, files a petition for amparo and habeas data with the SC. Eco is one of the few survivors who lived to confront their captors and expose a system that has allowed too many to be disappeared with impunity.
With court cases lost and Jonas still missing, nothing more effectively fosters impunity for figures like Gen. Eduardo Año, now the National Security Adviser, than classifying the sounds and images of the Burgos family’s struggle for justice as “not for public viewing.”
The MTRCB’s X-rating of Alipato at Muog may not be as blunt or violent as forcibly disappearing Jonas Burgos, but it is just as insidious an effort to push uncomfortable truths into the shadows.
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Steering Group also calls for nominations for the Ebru Timtik Award.
Please nominate individual(s) or an organisation who/which have demonstrated outstanding commitment and sacrifice in upholding fair trial rights values in the Philippines.
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And the far greater tragedy is that their legal recourse leaves their mouths agape in frustration.
Reina Mae and Baby River are no victims of the circumstances. They are victims of a system that criminalizes dissent, neglects the marginalized and the innocent,..