Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012: Crimes and Their Penalties
With the the declaration of the Supreme Court of the Philippines that several provisions of the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 including penalizing internet libel are constitutional, a lot of the netizens were unhappy and worried about their freedom on speech online. Precisely the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 was declared constitutional on Tuesday, February 18, 2014, thereby ending the debates on the constitutionality of the said law. There are some provisions of the law that were declared unconstitutional.