Seeing medieval criminal House bills. atm 11am Congress House Com Tech Work Group proposed bill to criminalize spreading “fake news” 6-12yrs prison!: Bill is a mere expanded and harsher version of the medieval Art154 RPC, used by Duterte during pandemic to warrantlessly arrest netizens

Daily writing prompt

What’s a moment that made you question reality?

Answer: Seeing medieval criminal House bills.

At the moment 11am Congress House Committee Technical Working Group to discuss proposed bill to criminalize spreading “fake news”:, punishing it with 6 -12 years imprisonment!!!

Bill is a mere expanded and harsher version of the medieval Article 154 of the Revised Penal Code that was used by Duterte during the pandemic to warrantlessly arrest netizens

If you want to surrender the internet — the last frontier of free speech of the citizenry — to the State, then go down without a fight and give up your freedoms now.