My Fellow Wikimedians, We would like to ask your feedback on the new law signed by our President about Cybercrime whether it had a chilling effect on our local Wikipedia editors. Official text is available on this link: http://www.gov.ph/downloads/2012/09sep/20120912-RA-10175-BSA.pdf Thank you. Roman "Butch" Bustria Jr. Vice President Wikimedia Philippines *The future of technology is defined by change, but the destiny of an organization is defined by commitment.* ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information contained in this message is privileged and intended only for the recipients named. If the reader is not a representative of the intended recipient, any review, dissemination or copying of this message or the information it contains is prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender, and delete the original message and attachments. Please consider the environment before printing this email. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Seb35 &lt;seb35wikipedia(a)gmail.com&gt; Date: Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 12:23 AM Subject: Re: [Internal-l] CPA : Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 - Philippines To: "Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed subscription)" &lt;internal-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; I catch the occasion to mention the open list advocacy_advisors(a)lists.* *wikimedia.org &lt;advocacy_advisors(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; dedicated to this type of news, associated with the Meta page https://meta.wikimedia.org/**wiki/Legal_and_Community_**Advocacy<https:/… ~ Seb35 [^_^] Le Sat, 15 Sep 2012 18:10:00 +0200, Amir E. Aharoni < amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il&gt; a écrit: Is there a reason to ask about this on the internal mailing list? You > can get useful feedback from the open list, too. > > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > ‪“We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ > > ______________________________**_________________ > Internal-l mailing list > Internal-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/internal-l<https://lists.… > ______________________________**_________________ Internal-l mailing list Internal-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/internal-l<https://lists.… -- * *

Hello, I have given a quick look to the bill. It's difficult to draw definite conclusions : the signification of the text greatly depends on the present state of several fields of Philippine legislation (on libel for instance). I have nevertheless some concerns about the c1 paragraph of the fourth section defining the crime of cybersex : « The willful engagement, maintenance, control, or operation, directly or indirectly, of any lascivious exhibition of sexual organs or sexual activity, with the aid of a computer system, for favor or consideration. » I may be wrong, but the enforcement of this paragraph could potentially prevent the diffusion of explicit encyclopedic photographies and illustrations on sexual topics. Pierre-Carl Langlais aka Alexander Doria Hi Roman, I really appreciate your sharing this with us. Is it possible you could give a brief summary to give us a gist of your concerns about the bill? Fully understand if you may be to busy to do that. Thanks, Geoff On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Roman Bustria Jr. &lt;bustrias(a)gmail.com&gt;wrote;wrote: > Hello again. > > Here is a clearer version. > > http://www.gov.ph/2012/09/12/republic-act-no-10175/ > > > Butch > WMPH > > > > > On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Roman Bustria Jr. &lt;bustrias(a)gmail.com > > wrote: > >> My Fellow Wikimedians, >> >> We would like to ask your feedback on the new law signed by our >> President about Cybercrime whether it had a chilling effect on our local >> Wikipedia editors. >> >> Official text is available on this link: >> >> http://www.gov.ph/downloads/2012/09sep/20120912-RA-10175-BSA.pdf >> >> Thank you. >> >> >> Roman "Butch" Bustria Jr. >> Vice President >> Wikimedia Philippines >> >> >> *The future of technology is defined by change, but the destiny of >> an organization is defined by commitment.* >> >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> The information contained in this message is privileged and intended >> only for the recipients named. 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