A lawmaker wants a one-year prescriptive period for cyberlibel, instead of the 12 years set in the implementing rules and regulations of the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012, to put in place a reasonable time limit on lawsuits over online defamation.
In her House Bill No. 6750, Cebu City Rep. Rachel Marguerite del Mar questioned why the prescription period for cyberlibel was set at 12 years when the Revised Penal Code set a prescription period on one year for the crime of libel.In Del Mar’s explanatory note, she pointed out: “With the advent of advance technologies, social media and other platforms, the exercise of freedom of speech, of expression or of the press has become wider, faster and accessible.
“Despite compliance with the Data Privacy Act, netizens—not only media people—are now at risk [from] all kinds of lawsuits by commenting or publishing something through a social media platform,” she pointed out.
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