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#juanvote Netizens’ Election Day Memo 2013
May 13 is Election Day. Whether you’re voting or not, you have many ways to participate in the process and make it move towards democracy that’s real and substantive. As netizens, we could use our social media capital to do great things and to be good citizens.
More10 questions for Senate, Congress candidates
Today is #juanvote Blog Action Day and I have these questions to ask candidates for senator, and district and partylist congressperson: Internet freedom is important to Filipinos: Are you going to file or support a bill repealing the Cybercrime Law and the Data Privacy Law? Government and all officials should be accountable and transparent to […]
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Draft DTI final report on online sales promotions by bloggers
The technical working group formed by the Department of Trade and Industry has released a draft final report on the application of DTI rules on the requirement of sales permit for all online sales promotions. In the interest of transparency and to allow as many bloggers to check and react to the draft final report, […]
MoreSelf-fulfilling prophecy: Culture of impunity goes unchallenged under Aquino
Referring to extrajudicial killings and the killing of journalists in the Philippines in his July, 2010 State of the Nation Address, President Benigno Aquino III declared that his administration would “hold murderers accountable.” Despite that pledge, six journalists have been killed since then, or a total of ten since the Ampatuan Massacre of November 23, 2009 claimed the […]
MoreToday, Nov. 21, is Blog Action Day for justice, against impunity
Over 500 days have passed since Benigno Aquino III assumed the presidency on a pro-change platform – but families of victims of extrajudicial killings have been made to wait and to wait longer for presidential action needed to spur decisive action by government. The administration has not done anything meaningful to address the political killings […]
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