1. Cyber Crime Law
Potential new international legal mechanisms against global cyberattacks and other global
cybercrimes:
- An International Criminal Tribunal for Cyberspace should be established.
- The Prosecutor as a separate organ of the Tribunal should be responsible for the investigation
and prosecution.
-Cyberattacks of the most serious global concern should be included in a substantive international
criminal law.
The rules written above are the things inside our new Law which is known as "Cybercrime Law".
The National Union of Journalist of the Philippines, Philippine Press Institute, Center for Media
Freedom and Responsibility and various journalists and bloggers joined the call for the Supreme
Court to strike down as unconstitutional Republic Act 10175 or the Cybercrime Prevention Act of
2012. Many are against with this law, and as a student, I can see a negative side about our new
law. Cybercrime Law is the newest and hottest topic in the Philippines today. We can hear it
everywhere and there comes this positive and negative comment about it. For all we know, this
law has been made for us internet users, prevent the what we call "Cyber Bullying" and we can
see the positive intension of government with that. However, De La Salle University Law School
Dean Jose Manuel Diokno said that despite its positive objectives, to regulate Internet use and get
rid of unwanted online activities, and other strengths, the wide-ranging Anti-Cybercrime Law
covered several extraneous areas, which only magnified its ambiguity and other weeknesses.
"Any kind of speech, whether it is done on the Internet or in ordinary communication, cannot be
subjected to prior restraint from the government, unless a court allows it", Diokno stated in a
phone interview last Friday, citing the Constitution and Supreme Court decisions. "The problem
with the Cybercrime Law is that it seems to take away the power of the court and give it to the
Department of Justice. The DOJ, of course, is not a court, it belongs to the Executive Department,
so there's constitutional issue already". And for me, they had also taken away our freedom of
expression without realizing that Philippines is a free country, and freedom of speech is a right of
every Filipino.