Senate Minority Leader Frank Drilon says the President's veto is a 'big win for troll farms.'
MANILA, Philippines – Senator Grace Poe is hoping that the 18th Congress would move to override President Rodrigo Duterte’s veto on the bill that would have required Filipinos to register ownership of their SIM cards and use their real names when creating social media accounts.
“Each day without the safeguards from the measure makes our people vulnerable to ripoffs that take away their money and cause them anxiety; the onslaught of cybercrimes and fake news that tear away the fabric of our democracy,” she added. For Poe, the vetoed bill still upholds jurisprudence in the Chavez vs. Gonzales case in 2008, wherein the Supreme Court ruled that content-neutral regulation “are not designed to suppress any particular message.”
“I may have to agree with the presidential veto. Mandating social media registration could be violative of the ‘one subject, one title’ rule as defined under the 1987 Constitution, not to mention the absence of safeguards or guidelines in the said provision not even covered by the title of the measure itself,” said Lacson in a statement.
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