Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Saturday slammed President Rodrigo Duterte's veto of the Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) Card Registration bill, claiming it is a move in favor of trolls and fake news.
Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Saturday slammed President Rodrigo Duterte's veto of the Subscriber Identity Module Card Registration bill, claiming it is a move in favor of trolls and fake news.
Likewise, Duterte believes that the bill may give rise to a situation of dangerous state intrusion and surveillance, threatening many constitutionally protected rights.last-minute insertion by Drilon “It’s not a last-minute insertion. We studied it and introduced it in the Senate plenary as part of our humble contribution in the fight against trolls and fake news. Twenty-two senators voted in favor of the measure on third reading last December. The House of Representatives adopted our version with little modification,” Drilon said.
“She is only one of the thousands of victims of trolls and fake news. Some of them are children who may bear the scars of bullying and trolling for life. The bill could have helped in preventing trolls and fake news,” Drilon said. “Mandating social media registration could be violative of the ‘one subject one title rule’ as defined under the 1987 Constitution, not to mention the absence of safeguards or guidelines in the said provision not even covered by the title of the measure itself,” Lacson said.
Zarate added the vetoed bill is also an added burden to subscribers since they will be compelled to undergo a tedious process of registering their SIM cards and numbers.
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