{"id":121789,"date":"2017-10-06T02:01:01","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T06:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=121789"},"modified":"2017-10-06T02:01:01","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T06:01:01","slug":"poe-allays-fears-fake-news-law-will-be-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/06\/poe-allays-fears-fake-news-law-will-be-censorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Poe allays fears fake news law will be censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_112019\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-112019\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Senator-Grace-Poe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-112019\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Senator-Grace-Poe.jpg\" alt=\"Senator Grace Poe (PNA Photo)\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Senator-Grace-Poe.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Senator-Grace-Poe-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-112019\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Senator Grace Poe (PNA Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Senator Grace Poe on Thursday allayed the concern of President Rodrigo Duterte that a proposed law against fake news would be like censorship saying that she is not in favor of anything that suppresses freedom of speech.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While I am concerned about the pernicious effects of the proliferation of fake news that can destroy not just a person&#8217;s reputation but institutions as well, I am in no way in favor of any measure that aims to suppress our freedom of speech or expression,\u201d Poe said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Poe explained that the kind of law she plans to craft will instead increase the penalties for cyber libel which will also make public official liable for spreading fake news.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I intend is to come up with a law that will increase the penalties for cyber libel caused by fake news and make public officials and employees, whether elected or appointed, hired as a consultant or adviser, paid or not, criminally liable for posting fake news online where malice is presumed,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Poe added that it would be wise to make it a public policy to deem fake news a malum prohibitum (wrong due to being prohibited) offense by way of special law.<\/p>\n<p>Poe, chair of the Senate Committee on Public Information and Mass Media, earlier led a public hearing on fake news that was attended by Communications officials, journalists, bloggers, and other social media experts.<\/p>\n<p>It may be recalled that President Duterte earlier said that a proposed law against fake news would not get passed by him because it would be a form of censorship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Freedom of expression would be constitutional. I am sure they cannot pass a law against fake news,&#8221; Duterte said.<\/p>\n<p>The President, meanwhile, suggested that a law increasing penalties for libel and slander can be passed instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Senator Grace Poe on Thursday allayed the concern of President Rodrigo Duterte that a proposed law against fake news &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":112019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[24894,12568,26264,3662,2444],"class_list":["post-121789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-censorship","tag-fake-news","tag-freedom-of-speech","tag-grace-poe","tag-rodrigo-duterte","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121789","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=121789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}