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Jessica Rico
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- An International Criminal Tribunal for Cyberspace should be established to prosecute cyberattacks and cybercrimes of global concern. The Tribunal's Prosecutor would be responsible for investigating and prosecuting these crimes. - The new Cybercrime Law in the Philippines aims to prevent cyberbullying but is criticized for being too broad and ambiguous. It is seen as restricting freedom of expression by allowing the Department of Justice to censor speech without court oversight.

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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.

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  • 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.