PNoy must have signed Cybercrime Law with wide-open eyes’

From: inquirer.net

House Deputy Minority Leader Zambales Rep. Milagros “Mitos” Magsaysay said President Aquino must have signed the Cybercrime Law with ‘eyes wide open.’

Magsaysay said President Aquino could have vetoed the controversial provisions on online libel and the take down clause in the Cybercrime Law “if they were not to his liking.”

“All past Presidents exercised this, if they disagreed on the law Congress is trying to pass.”

“If there were issues not to his liking, he would have made it known to Congress prior to his signing so that it could have been deliberated further in the bicam,” Magsaysay said.

Magsaysay also said it is unfair to lay all the blame on the contentious provisions of the Cybercrime Law on a single legislator.

Magsaysay recalled that the libel and other questionable provisions of the Cybercrime Law were not part of the version approved by the House of Representatives.

“When we passed the House version wala pa yun… attendees to the bicameral committee never informed us na nagka-changes sa version namin,” Magsaysay said.

Aurora Rep. Juan Edgardo Angara had earlier said in a recent interview that as one of the authors of the Cybercrime Law, he could not remember the questionable provisions during their deliberations. ###