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out-of-date system.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”.
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