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PTV Station 4 asked me to join a TV forum today.

I decided to say yes because I feel very strongly about this new law and I had recovered from the onset of a cold and cough.

UPDATE as of 10:54 AM, Sept. 29, 2012: Replay of forum on PTV4 at 3:30 PM today Sept 29. Or you can now watch it on YouTube video link provided at the bottom of this piece.

 

Unlike during the time of the dictator Ferdinand Marcos, the government station was very open to airing views that were contrary to those of the present government.

The forum had guests from all sides of the controversy and I was glad to meet three from the law enforcement sector:

♦ Louis Casambre, Department of Science and Technology undersecretary and Executive Director of the department’s Info & Communications Technology Office;

♦ Senior Inspector Kimberly Molitas-Gonzales, spokesperson of the Police Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG); and

♦ Joey Narciso of the National Bureau of Investigation Cyber Crime Unit.

I also met two private lawyers active on Internet law, both nicknamed “J.J.” – lawyer Jennifer Atienza and Jose Jesus Disini Jr., director of the University of the Philippines Law Internet Society Program.  And of course fellow blogger Jane Uymatiao of Blogwatch Philippines was there.

Unfortunately, I was unable to meet in person afterward two of the guests from the Business Process Outsourcing Association of the Philippines – Genny Marcial, executive director for external affairs and lawyer Raul Cortez, also of the BPAP.

Questions from the floor and from those outside the studio showed me that the youth are very much aware of the controversy. But they were unsure, like me and many netizens, what its full implications were.

The three hosts – Kathy San Gabriel, Atty. Marc Castrodes and Gio Tingson – kept the ball rolling.  

Here is the link to the 3-part YouTube videos.  The other two parts can be accessed from the same link:

To watch the U-Stream video, please click on the link below:

Philippine government TV station hosts forum on anti-cybercrime law

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Comments

  1. Guys,

    I have an INTERESTING UPDATE on Sen. Sotto. The data was provided me by one of you out there.

    But first I have to finish my SCMP article on the Cybercrime Prevention Act. It’s the first time I’m writing about this for my HK newspaper.

    Raissa

        • NOTE FROM RAISSA – This comment has been moderated to comply with the Cybercrime Law:
          I FIRST CHECKED THE COMMENTER’S ID AND NOTED THAT THE LINK TO THE FACEBOOK PAGE WAS HARDLY ACTIVE.
          Below is the comment –

          EXPLETIVE Sotto… that’s right!! Take me court you dumbarsehole!!! I’m not scared of you EXPLETIVE!!! I hope your son you LIBELOUS STATEMENT from that diane pill you gave to your wife goes to EXPLETIVE!!! EXPLETIVE of EXPLETIVE!!!!!!!!