Comments on: Court Orders Philippine Blog to Remove Post

By: Steven Aaron

Steven Aaron — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 19:45:43 +0000

I’am from New York. And visited the Philippines in February, and after what I have seen, is living proof of the way the government operates there. I do believe that Gloria Aquino wants her election rigged…just like she had it done in the past. I have spoken to hundreds of people there and not one single person, rich or poor, wants her in office. But yet she wins? When the Military coalition went to Irag, a Filipino was taken hostage. She pulled her roops out to save him from terrorist treats of being executed. In my opinion, after his release, she should have sent her troops right back. Her claim was “a filipinos life is not worth losing just to “show off” like the others in the coalition. Well, I say this to Mrs Aquino..Because of your poor lack of leadership, corruption, no health care system, the poor dying in the steets from illness because they have no funds to pay Doctors or Hospitals no jobs (reason why so many Filipinos must work abroad)…you have been the cause of more deaths in your country. Sooner of later the people are going to have enough of being the worst off country in Asia. The Government must be revamped…Gloria Aquino must step down. If not, there will definitly be an uprising…believe me…its coming!

By: INSIDE PCIJ: Stories behind our stories » TRO on PCIJ blog expires

INSIDE PCIJ: Stories behind our stories » TRO on PCIJ blog expires — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 11:03:13 +0000

[...] This was the first restraining order issued on a blog in the Philippines and has generated a lively debate on free expression versus privacy in the Pinoy blogosphere. [...]

By: Dean Jorge Bocobo

Dean Jorge Bocobo — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 15:50:35 +0000

There is a particularly compliant kind of personality in Philippine society–those who’ve a string of criminal cases in the Courts. Mike Defensor probably “owns” Jonathan Tiongco in this way because those serious criminal cases Tiongco has, can be turned on and off at the Palace’s will. I think he is probably being blackmailed and his family threatened to ensure his obedience. That is why it is his wife into whose mouth they have put the complaint of an invasion of privacy. To remind him! Now, why put down an obscure and mysterious thing like a blog when all the same information had been printed in the newspapers and broadcast on the radio TV? Maybe because blog readership in the Philippines is tiny compared to main stream media (with Internet penetration of about 1%) and most of that devoted to the online pathos of the local entertainment world. But how can anyone can take seriously a “right to privacy” in a case such as this, where its enforcement is utterly MOOT and FUTILE and its only effect the harassment of the country’s top investigative journalists? The TRO is a mockery of the Law, and Common Sense. PCIJ lawyers will make mincemeat of it and the libel case, both. Btw, Jonathan Tiongco isn’t exactly a private citizen, since Julius Babao says he bailed out terrorist Dawud Islam Santos of the Rajah Solaiman Movement, but that’s another hair-raising story…

By: Jose Manuel Tesoro

Jose Manuel Tesoro — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 07:22:56 +0000

Corrected.

By: Manuel L. Quezon III

Manuel L. Quezon III — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 07:11:09 +0000

Just a clarification, PCIJ and Newsbreak are not related, they are separate organizations.