Anti-Cyber Boso Bill (House Bill No. 4315) is dangerously close to being approved as a law by the Philippine Congress.
This will make it a crime to "video tape, disc record," [an 'indecent' act] or "replay" or "share, relay or exhibit the contents thereof in any form" or to simply possess any of these -- with up to six years imprisonment and Php 500,00.00 in fines.
Oh, and anybody can sue the alleged culprit when this bill becomes law. Anybody can sue me if i use my cellphone to make a video of my dick. [On second thought, better make one and more than that before i lose my right to do so.] Ow gawd -- so people are allowed to make any home movie -- just don't make a home movie of you making love, or any act perceived as indecent by -- ok, who defines what's decent and what is not? The real test of decency is not clothes (or lack thereof) but motives.
The office of BUHAY (LIFE) Party List Representative Irwin Tieng, author of the bill, is said to have
Monitored? Irwin, get a LIFE. Your office could do something more useful, like help people survive an uncertain economy rather than be a voyeuristic watchdog of voyeurs. There are enough laws covering blackmail and pornography already. Your bill is another one of those let's-protect-people-from-themselves proposals (alongside castrate-the-genetically-impure mandates) ahaha. If passed into law, its implementation would cause the government to act as Big Brother spying on what people do in their bedrooms (even if they do it with an Internet connection and a webcam or just a cellphone). People have the right to privacy you know. Your bill would further harass an already harassed people -- they already have problems aplenty -- leave them their kinks.
This will make it a crime to "video tape, disc record," [an 'indecent' act] or "replay" or "share, relay or exhibit the contents thereof in any form" or to simply possess any of these -- with up to six years imprisonment and Php 500,00.00 in fines.
Oh, and anybody can sue the alleged culprit when this bill becomes law. Anybody can sue me if i use my cellphone to make a video of my dick. [On second thought, better make one and more than that before i lose my right to do so.] Ow gawd -- so people are allowed to make any home movie -- just don't make a home movie of you making love, or any act perceived as indecent by -- ok, who defines what's decent and what is not? The real test of decency is not clothes (or lack thereof) but motives.
The office of BUHAY (LIFE) Party List Representative Irwin Tieng, author of the bill, is said to have
"monitored many cases where individuals spread sex flicks on the internet or over bluetooth networks, either to get back at lovers who have spurned them or to force their former partners back into a relationship."
Monitored? Irwin, get a LIFE. Your office could do something more useful, like help people survive an uncertain economy rather than be a voyeuristic watchdog of voyeurs. There are enough laws covering blackmail and pornography already. Your bill is another one of those let's-protect-people-from-themselves proposals (alongside castrate-the-genetically-impure mandates) ahaha. If passed into law, its implementation would cause the government to act as Big Brother spying on what people do in their bedrooms (even if they do it with an Internet connection and a webcam or just a cellphone). People have the right to privacy you know. Your bill would further harass an already harassed people -- they already have problems aplenty -- leave them their kinks.
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