Philippine Law Maker’s Social Media Learning Curve

The newly passed bill to the senate regarding the cyber law intensifies when the bill is being defined without fully addressing the real concept mapping of the internet communication platforms and rights.  As to the layman’s understanding, internet is all about libel and posting scandalous videos that will harm other netizens reputation.   

Well, that is a good and protective law. But with the wide coverage of internet media one single ruling is not enough to generalize the internet activity of the different internet media platforms.  For example, many established media companies like CNN and BBC they are encouraging their followers online to contribute raw videos of their specific location to participate the real time media news delivery.   

With this simple act of netizen, large media companies have the convenience to cover micro information right directly from the locale of the netizen involved.  But on the contrary, cyber activities that will also harm the national and international security and the general public at large are presumed also as a criminal offense.  

 In relation to the new bill passed to the senate, some law makers in the Philippines is only good in playing Angry Birds and Candy Crush but they don’t know the relevance of Social Media as a society’s new platform of freedom of expression.  Good to realize that some Senators like Honorable Senator Miriam Santiago and Francis Chiz Escudero who are receptive to the change of media deliverance throughout the nation and the world.

Senator Miriam's Speech @ Adamson University