Anonymous Philipines hacked BSP and MWSS

Yesterday last night, September 26, 2012 (Wednesday) hackers who call themselves as the “Anonymous Philippines” have smeared a government website namely the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) and the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) in protest of the new bill, the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 or in layman’s term, the Cybercrime Law.

Anonymous Philippines alleged that this new Act wills to “effectively ends” the Article 3, Section 4 of the 1987 Philippines Constitution or the Freedom of Expression which they called to revise that punishes online defamation. Adopting an “80 year-old antiquated libel laws” disappoints Anonymous Philippines for applying this out-of-date system.

Before the BSP recouped their website today (12:26 AM via Rappler), the website was welcomed by a banner with the group name of the hacker and stated their appeal by changing the site’s homepage into a protest one.

“The Philippine Government has just passed a bill that effectively ends the Freedom of Expression in the Philippines.

Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 is the most notorious act ever witnessed in the cyber-history of the Philippines, and the language of the bill is cunningly designed to make you think it only applies to individuals who are deep in cyber-technology and doesn’t apply to everyone, but some part of the bill basically says that it can imprison anyone who commits libel either by written messages, comments, blogs, or posts in sites such as Facebook, Twitter, or any other comment-spaces of other social media in the Internet.

New technologies give us new opportunities to connect a lot of people not only in this country but all over the world. They can also provide us with a medium through which our political, public and even private views can have an immediate and direct impact on individuals, communities and even countries. It is just disappointing that out government, in adopting an our 80-year-old antiquated libel laws to the Cybercrime Laws, again seems to have retarded our march with the rest of the world with respect to giving full force to the people’s freedom of expression.

We ask for a revision of the said bill for the betterment of the Filipino denizens.

 

Protect our right to Freedom of Expression!”

According to Rappler, after BSP have recovered their control on their website which is visited by international bankers and finance manager, minutes later the Philippine Anti-Piracy Team and the American Chamber of Commerce in the Philippines was also victimized by the same hackers.

As a result, “Anonymous Philippines” and “BSP” was a trending topic in the social networking site: Twitter. A twitter user tweeted that “it only shows how low our security is”.

Reference: http://www.rappler.com/nation/13142-bsp-site-hacked-to-protest-cybercrime-law

A view from the controversial BILL.

image from Google.com

Women, men and even teenagers are a bit confuse on what will this RH Bill bring in our state because there is an overload of information coming from the media and for those who have already the knowledge has by now its own bet, whether they are ANTI or PRO but RH Bill has place the state’s so called “Christian country practices” into a test. From this status, ANTIs and PROs started debating on this matter.

PRO’s side

Standing from the reason of “poverty”, PROs believe of “massive population is the cause of poverty”. True, yet there are a lot of contradictions on what they believe. While I was surfing Facebook on anything that can quench my boringness, a status caught my attention. The status came from a writer and was once an Editor-in-Chief on our school’s student publication and he stated that “If the church will go up against the RH Bill, then they should find a way to solve the nation’s augmenting poverty”. The quote was not exactly what the user’s status but its thought is what the quoted part denotes.

The population really affects the state’s economy and of course in the field of improvement and on the undying social problem which is “poverty”. For instance, China’s “1 child policy” may sound vindictive but it actually helps its nation to improve in all aspects in the economy.  Philippines of course would not emulate China’s rule but if we really internalize what their state is implementing, it is actually the foremost purpose why their nation is improving. According to one of the articles I’ve read in the latest issue of our official student publication, the Capitol Chronicle (Volume 24 No. 1 June-August 2012) entitled “Two Cents on RH Bill” written by Charlie Simon with interviews by Jocef Ian Rama, the Dean of the College of Nursing, Dean Fidela Ansale said that the terms of the bill is to improve and promote the health and wellness of the people athwart of the lifespan of an individual. In general, the bill not only focuses on family planning but also the wellness of every entity.

ANTI’s side

It was stated, “go to the world and multiply”. As a Christian Country, we believe that God created each individual for a specific purpose. Every purpose is in good intentions. When we see it as not a ‘good intension’ it is because we are blinded by our emotions. In connection, at the moment of conception of a sperm and an egg cell, God had created the very young and delicate fertilized egg its purpose and as what the opposing team sees on the bill, there’s no need for us to control our population for the sake of solving ‘poverty’.

The church views on this bill as what I’ve read and heard through articles on newspapers and on television is an “abortifacient” which implies a type of process or seldom, a drug used to kill a fetus or a cause of abortion (The Pocket Webster School and Office Dictionary: 1990). Churches most especially on Christian countries which of course practicing ‘Christian living’ only concur “natural family planning”. Some says that “population” does not affect the state’s economy and not a major source of poverty, believing that “there are no enough jobs” is the reason why our country is still experiencing this undying social problem which started centuries ago.

To ponder

Philippines have been facing a lot of problems. From the conflict between China, the augmenting crime rate, the increasing number of deaths because of dengue, the garbage, graft and corruption, and this Reproductive Health Bill. As a citizen living in the lower class, I am still hoping for the upcoming era that the nation’s undying problem will soon be in part of the Philippines history and a new Philippines will be born. From these impediments, we will much more appreciate our triumph.

How about you? What’s your take in the Reproductive Health Bill (RH Bill)?