What’s the ‘crime’ in Cybercrime?

The Supreme Court holds its first set of oral arguments on Republic Act 10175, or the Cybercrime Prevention Act, on January 15, 3 months after the high court issued a temporary restraining order stopping the government from implementing it. Five lawyers from some of the groups that opposed the law will face and try to convince the magistrates that the law is tantamount to “e-martial law” because it contains provisions that penalize online libel and authorize the Department of Justice to shut down websites that, based on prima facie (on its face) evidence, contains harmful content, among others. The cybercrime law is one of big cases confronting the Court in 2013. 


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