{"id":121453,"date":"2017-10-05T00:04:13","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T04:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=121453"},"modified":"2017-10-05T00:04:13","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T04:04:13","slug":"rody-on-proposed-law-vs-fake-news-thats-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/05\/rody-on-proposed-law-vs-fake-news-thats-censorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Rody on proposed law vs fake news: That\u2019s censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Rodrigo Roa Duterte listens to the queries from the members of the media following the meeting with the parents and relatives of the alleged hazing victim Horacio Castillo III in Malaca\u00f1an Palace on October 4, 2017. (KARL NORMAN ALONZO\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

President Rodrigo Roa Duterte on Wednesday called the creation of a law battling fake news \u2018censorship.\u2019<\/p>\n

During the Senate hearing against fake news, the senators questioned Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Assistant Secretary (ASec) Esther Margaux \u201cMocha\u201d Uson of \u2018Mocha Uson Blog\u2019 and Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) consultant Rey Joseph Nieto of \u2018Thinking Pinoy.\u2019<\/p>\n

The President commented, \u201cNakinig ako kanina<\/em> (I heard) that they would craft a law to set a standard. Ah patay<\/em>. That\u2019s censorship. \u2018Di lulusot \u2018yan <\/em>(That will not pass).\u201d<\/p>\n

Duterte said that he was sure that lawmakers would be unable to pass a law against fake news, as it would attack freedom of expression.<\/p>\n

However, Duterte suggested the upgrade of existing laws. \u201cKung gusto mo <\/em>(If you want), pass a law increasing penalty, tutal<\/em> (after all) you have slander, you have libel, civil case. But to prescribe a set of rules, what is proper or not, hindi lulusot \u2018yun, \u2018patay \u2018yan pagdating sa akin <\/em>(that will not get through, that is dead when it reaches me),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The President made the statement on a press conference in the palace during his meeting with the parents of University of Santo Tomas (UST) hazing victim, Horacio \u201cAtio\u201d Castillo III.<\/p>\n

PCOO Secretary Martin Andanar\u2019s statement read by Undersecretary Joel Sy Egco during the hearing said that fake news websites tagging the administration and President Duterte is bad for the government as it may indicate official ties.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe cannot stop people from sharing fake news even after they have been determined to be fake. Therefore, public education is a must,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Senators urged Uson and Nieto to be \u2018accountable\u2019 in their posts as apart from being bloggers, they are still part of the government and should be responsible in any information that they post on social media.<\/p>\n

The said hearing by the Senate committee on public information and mass media ensued when SilentNoMorePH named seven senators who \u2018refused\u2019 to sign a resolution condemning the deaths of young people in the war on drugs \u2013 which the senators clarified that they did not refused but more of \u2018they were not informed or asked to sign.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Rodrigo Roa Duterte on Wednesday called the creation of a law battling fake news \u2018censorship.\u2019 During the Senate hearing …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":121466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[24894,12568,13092,26110,2444],"class_list":["post-121453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-censorship","tag-fake-news","tag-mocha-uson","tag-rey-joseph-nieto","tag-rodrigo-duterte","mauthors-bea-kirstein-t-manalaysay","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}