MANILA, Philippines — There is no reason to worry over a proposal to allow the Department of Information and Communications Technology to shut down social media accounts linked to terrorism as long as due process is guaranteed, an ICT civil rights advocacy group said Wednesday. "The law must be followed," Democracy.Net.Ph co-convener Pierre Tito Galla told Philstar.com in a phone interview on Wednesday. "Our rights online are our rights offline. He said, however, that the group—which opposed parts of the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 that were later struck down as unconstitutional—would oppose proposals to give the government blanket authority to takedown citizens' social media pages without due process. “First battleground is media, social media.

Source: Philippine Star November 28, 2018 09:20 UTC