[Advocacy Advisors] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Yet Another Cybercrime Law (Philippines)

Wed Oct 3 14:46:24 UTC 2012

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On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Stephen LaPorte <slaporte at wikimedia.org>wrote:

> Below is an update on the Filipino editor community's discussions about
> the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 (Republic Act 10175).
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Paolo B. <titopao at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 8:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Yet Another Cybercrime Law (Philippines)
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Cc: Wikimedia Phillippines mailing list <wikimedia-ph at lists.wikimedia.org>
>
>
> Hello Benjamin,
>
> As far as Wikipedia is concerned, some members of the Filipino editors'
> community (myself included) are trying to gather a consensus before
> requesting for a blackout of the English Wikipedia for the Philippines
> (that is, a 24-hour blackout that will only take effect here and not
> including other countries). We might probably include other local
> Philippine-language Wikipedias as well, but that's still under discussion,
> here:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:TAMBAY#Proposed_blackout
>
> I have only been able to participate in soliciting the input of other Pinoy
> WIkipedians (through messages in their Talk pages) just now, as I was away
> from my desktop computers recently. So I'm not sure how many other Filipino
> Wikipedians are yet to hear of our proposal. (This proposal, by the way, is
> an initiative of the local editing community and is not an official action
> of the local chapter, Wikimedia Philippines.)
>
> Outside Wikipedia, however, the rage against the bill is pretty s trong. A
> lot of Filipinos have changes their Facebook and Twitter profile pictures
> into a solid black square. Even a news website
> (http://www.interaksyon.com/) changed
> its layout to a black background. There was a protest movement yesterday at
> the Supreme Court, in support of the seven (7) petitions asking for a
> temporary restraining order (TRO) of Republic Act 10175; however, no TRO
> was issued yesterday as a number of judges were absent because of official
> duties. Suffice it to say that, yes, there is a significant opposition to
> the Cybercrime Law (specifically on the provisions on libel), and for sure
> it will be in the news in the days to come....
>
>
> Paolo Barazon
> Trustee, Wikimedia Philippines
> (speaking on a personal capacity, not on behalf of Wikimedia Philippines)
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 6:57 AM, Benjamin Lees <emufarmers at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/09/philippines-new-cybercrime-prevention-act-troubling-free-expression
> > I suppose this is old news by now, but I haven't seen it mentioned here
> > yet.  Are any projects taking action?
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