We beg to differ.
There was a movement during the passage of the anti-Cybercrime law back in 2012 calling for the decriminalization of libel. They probably shout that again with the recent arrest of Rappler head honcho Maria Ressa. I didn’t pay much attention to it then, but now that I think about it, I prefer that libel stay…
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Filipinos who are demonising a Chinese national who threw a cup of taho (a sweetened beancurd snack) at a police officer the other day are flirting with the dangerous possibility of inciting racial tensions with ethnic Chinese foreigners residing in the Philippines. Jiale Zhang is currently facing charges of “direct assault” against a police officer…
People should get a grip over this recent measles “outbreak”. Partisan camps and social media “influencers” have been polarised between just two camps — (1) the Department of Health (DOH) headed by Sec. Francisco Duque who have been asserting that “low vaccine coverage because of the Dengvaxia scare” is behind this outbreak and (2) the…
A revolution of a different sort is at hand in the Philippines and it has the potential to effect the truly profound sort of change that is long overdue. The recent successful clean-up of Boracay and Manila Bay has created a new collective consciousness in the Filipino — one that has eluded an entire people…
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Like most activist concepts that had began their lives as noble pursuits, the notion of “media freedom” had been perverted beyond all recognition by the Philippines’ snowflake activists. Worse, in the hands of downright dishonest and political agenda-laden “thought leaders” of the Philippine Opposition, the concept has since suffered a death spiral in relevance. For…
Read More “Rappler and Opposition “bloggers” lead the way in MISINFORMING the Filipino people!” »
There is a bigger point being missed in this whole “debate” over the age of criminal liability in the Philippines. This point is around… Why this idea is being debated to begin with Indeed, in most normal societies, the idea of lowering the age of potential criminality to nine would not only shock most people,…
Perhaps the idea of “chidlhood” is something we in chi chi circles take for granted. But if we step back far enough and regard the bigger swathe of Philippine society or, for that matter, the societies of most Third World countries in general, we begin to see a picture that challenges our long-held and cherished…
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Esteemed political social media blogger Sass Rogando Sasot posted this much-appreciated hat-tip to GRP on Facebook. I may not always agree with GetRealPhilippines.COM. In fact, its founder benign0 and I even acerbically criticised each other’s views before. Yet despite his sarcasm and “pang-asar” tactics, benign0 never dehumanized me. Unlike Jover Laurio funded by Kris Aquino,…
