CYBER LIBEL: You want to fact check this arrest of Maria Ressa due to cyberlibel? Consider these:
1. The case stemmed from an article posted by Rappler IN MAY 2012 against a businessman, Wilfredo Keng, whereby the said article alleged that CJ Corona used an SUV owned by Keng during his impeachment trial.
2. Keng sued not because of the SUV angle but because the Rappler story maliciously imputed that he is engaged in human trafficking and illegal drugs.
3. Keng sued for cyberlibel in OCTOBER 2017, or 5 years after the original story was posted. There was no cyberlibel law yet when the story came out IN MAY 2012. The Cyber Libel Law came in effect SEPTEMBER 2012.
4. However, instead of heeding the request of Keng to take down the story, Rappler posted an update on the same story in FEBRUARY 2014, when the cyberlibel law was already in effect.
5. Last January 10, the DOJ found probable cause against Maria Ressa, reporter/researcher Reynaldo Santos Jr. and Rappler for cyberlibel.
6. The DOJ rejected the motion of Ressa’s camp to dismiss the charge based on their argument that the filing was beyond the one year prescription period. The DOJ said that under the cyberlibel law, there is no 1 Year prescription period indicated.
7. Judge Rainelda Estacio-Montesa issued a warrant of arrest dated February 12, 2019, TUESDAY.
8. Ressa had the whole day of Wednesday, Feb13, 2019 to post bail. But she did not do so, and instead, invited media people to her office prior to the arrival of the NBI personnel who were to serve the WOA.
These are the facts.
Walang drama yan, unlike Maria Ressa and her gang of snowflakes in media like Karen Davila, Inday Varona, and others.
Go ahead. Check them.
(c) Mark Lopez
Summary Opinion:
“She was arrested because of cases filed during AQUINO’S administration. The case was wayback 2012. The case was between her and a businessman which they involved in anomalous scandal in rapplers article that ruined the moral of the businessman and its company.
So in short, THE GOVERNMENT WAS NOT INVOLVED HERE NOR DUTERTE. The headline can somewhat mislead other people who are not Filipino and might have negative mindset because you put the term “Duterte Critic’. Again the case was filed on year 2012 during Aquino’s presidency. And to add on, she had also a pending case of tax evasion worth billions of peso.”
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