The internet is really really good….
… for PORN!
(from Avenue Q)
LOL.
Anyways. I haven’t been updated on the recent boybastos.com issue. I wasn’t online much as recent days were spent on being haggard, and on sleeping.
It was Mom who told me about the issue.
Apparently, Loren Legarda authored Senate Bill 1375, which according to the Philippine Senate website says
Under the bill, peddlers of online porn and other “indecent materials” would be punished with up to six years in prison or a fine of as much as P500,000, or both.
The bill provides that it would be illegal for any remote computer facility operator, electronic service provider or electronic bulletin board service provider to knowingly transmit, offer or attempt to send any communication that contains indecent material, to a person under 18 years of age.
It would also be unlawful for them “to allow access to transmit indecent material to a minor.”
Now while I’m not against laws regarding the internet (or the internetS according to Bush, hehe), I found this bill, again, too broad, and too easy to abuse (HSA, anyone?).
Most especially that part that says “it would also be unlawful for them ‘to allow access to transmit indecent material to a minor.’”
So for example, if I post a dirty picture here, say, the Vanessa Hudgens scandal, and a minor pops up in my blog, does it mean that I’m liable and I’m a criminal?
(OMG, I posted a link to the scandal. I’m so dead. They’re gonna shut me down.)
Moving on, I’m very thankful that I’m taking up Panitikan ng Pilipino 19, Gender and Sexuality this sem. I’ve been learning a lot from it. Our professor, besides being pro-gay and pro-lesbian (hehe), is also pro-EDUCATION and pro-EXPOSURE with regards to such issues.
Many times he has mentioned in his class that a person’s gender needs are continuously repressed by society. Why do you think more and more young people want to have sex at this age? It’s because society and it’s government, instead of educating the people about the sacredness of intercourse, condemn such acts.
Rather than being aware of it’s sanctity, people instead know it instead as something that is prohibited, and as Pinoys best put it, “masarap ang bawal.”
Think of it as the “prevention is better than cure” cliche. By educating and exposing, you’re preventing, while by prohibiting, you’re curing. Which do you think is a better choice?
Our government has always been backward when it comes to education. They say and think that the education budget is enough, so why the hell did UP have to increase it’s tuition fees? Instead of allocating more money in education, research and development, chose to put more money in fighting what they call “terror.”
Don’t you think that uneducated people are more of a “terror?”
It’s all stupid, really. The government doesn’t know it’s priorities.
If the government can’t handle issues such as education properly, then how the heck do they think they can handle the internet?
Laws like Loren’s, though of good intent, are just too much.
If i were senator, I’d pass a law requiring all schools to educate their students regarding such issues. At least the computers in public schools wouldn’t be just for decoration. Yes, in some public schools, computers are just ornaments on the desk, never to be turned on by anyone.
