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Good news for netizens the Supreme Court orders a TRO for Cybercrime Law dated October 9, 2012.  This means that the law will be on hold and the Supreme Court will still review it's details. The Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 is one of the hot topic in the internet these days. It has criticisms and 15 groups have already filed a petitions for the revision of the law.  Most netizens are concerned on the inclusion of libel case in the internet.  People are scared that it would create E-Martial Law to the online community.  The said libel case was included by senator Sotto and it was signed by president Aquino last September 12. Good news temporarily but we will all be waiting for the final decision of the law.

On September 12, 2012  President Noynoy Aquino signed a Republic Act 10175 or the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012.  The act punishes libel case online and internet-related offenses. The punishable acts under the law are the following: - computer related forgery, fraud and identity theft, crimes in the internet - offenses against confidentiality, integrity and availability of computer data system - illegal access, illegal interception, data interference, system interference and misuse of devices - content related offenses on cybersex and child pornography - cyber squatting (the user of other person domain name to profit, misled, destroy the reputation and deprive others from registering) - offenses on libel committed through a computer system The National Bureau of Investigation and the Philippine National Police will make a cybercrime unit and have a center for special investigators. Though this law is for people's protection it also has some disadvantage...