Here’s an excerpt from my latest CNET Asia blog post.
With the Philippine House of Representatives getting ready to deliberate on House Bill 6794 or the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2009, Filipino Netizens are being urged to read and critique the bill.
As I previously blogged, one of the worries of Filipino Internet users was that the controversy generated by online scandals in the Philippines, such as the Katrina Halili-Hayden Kho sex video, might be used to justify passing new cyberlaws or imposing Internet censorship in the Philippines.
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Check out my latest CNET Asia blog post.
Here’s an excerpt.
The youth party in Congress, Kabataan Partylist, has joined forces with consumer advocacy group TXTPower to spearhead an online and mobile campaign against the proposal to impose a five-centavo excise tax on SMS, MMS and mobile calls in the Philippines.
Kabataan Partylist is encouraging all those opposed to the “text tax” to join the Facebook Cause No Tax on Text! and email pro-text tax congressmen to convince them to scrap the bill.
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It’s already a cliche to talk about the apathy of the youth, but blogger and Philippine House of Representatives congressman Raymond “Mong” Palatino would be the first to dispute this.
Not only did Kabataan Partylist, of which he is president and top nominee, make history as the country’s first elected youth group to win a seat in Congress under the partylist system, but Palatino is also the first blogger to become a national legislator in the Philippines.
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