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Today, Filipino netizens scored a victory against the Cybercrime Prevention Act, against the those who would infringe upon the people’s civil liberties. Sitting en banc, all 14 Supreme Court justices issued a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) against RA10175, effectively stopping it dead in its tracks. The TRO bars the Department of Justice from carrying out [...]

This is only a proposal, and still very informal as it hasn’t even been decided yet whether or not to go ahead with the plan to institute a Filipino bloggers’ association. The purpose of my writing this is to attempt to dispel any notion that the organization might be an elitist clique or a political [...]

Having witnessed progressive movements in the Philippine blogosphere, and having gone through challenges facing bloggers across the country, a few bloggers began talking about forming a bloggers’ association last year. Tonyo Cruz and I, in particular, spoke about this around middle of 2010. It was shortly after I’d arrived from an international conference where bloggers [...]

Up until a couple of weeks ago, I’d been holding on to the blogpress.ph domain name for several months, imagining it to become something that would encapsulate — and perhaps somehow represent — the Philippine blogosphere. But the idea didn’t germinate for quite a spell. Then all of a sudden, starting in 2008, things started [...]