Bill to curb cybersex filed in Congress
Mulls ban on chat rooms, erotic stories
By Maila Ager INQ7.net
A BILL seeking to prohibit the proliferation of pornographic materials on the Internet, including viewing, reading and writing "sexually explicit letters and stories" has been filed at the House of Representatives.
Pampanga Representative Jesus Reynaldo Aquino has filed House Bill 4386 titled “An act prohibiting the proliferation of indecency using the different forms of information technology.”
Under the bill, it would be unlawful for any person to engage in any form of pornographic exploitation, using any form of information technology.
"For the purpose of this act, 'cybersex' shall include but [is] not limited to activities pertaining not only to viewing and/or downloading pornography, but also to reading and writing sexually explicit letters and stories, emailing to set up personal meetings with someone, placing advertisements to meet sexual partners, visiting sexually-oriented chat rooms, and engaging in interactive sexual online affairs for a free or for an consideration," it said.
Aquino's bill also prohibits any person from maintaining a business or establishment primarily engaged in these lewd acts: "Any establishment that provides Internet services for the public must devise a way to prevent any person [from having] access [to] pornographic sites, and to prevent minors from engaging in any interactive sexual online affairs and conversation," the bill said.
It is also prohibits such establishments from having a private room for sexual predators to freely commit these acts, it added.
A fine of up to one million pesos and up to 10 years imprisonment await those who would violate the proposed measure.
Aquino said that he was prompted to file the bill because of the alarmingly rapid expansion and proliferation of Internet pornography despite enactment of the Anti-Trafficking Law. He said the existing law does not have enough teeth to combat the problem.
"Curbing the growth or even attempting to eradicate the pornographic images available on the Internet, which has no national borders, is a difficult task that will require international comity. Thus, there is a need to make this act an extraterritorial crime," he said in his explanatory note.
The representative’s staff admitted though that enforcing the bill’s provisions outside the country would be problematic.
By Maila Ager INQ7.net
A BILL seeking to prohibit the proliferation of pornographic materials on the Internet, including viewing, reading and writing "sexually explicit letters and stories" has been filed at the House of Representatives.
Pampanga Representative Jesus Reynaldo Aquino has filed House Bill 4386 titled “An act prohibiting the proliferation of indecency using the different forms of information technology.”
Under the bill, it would be unlawful for any person to engage in any form of pornographic exploitation, using any form of information technology.
"For the purpose of this act, 'cybersex' shall include but [is] not limited to activities pertaining not only to viewing and/or downloading pornography, but also to reading and writing sexually explicit letters and stories, emailing to set up personal meetings with someone, placing advertisements to meet sexual partners, visiting sexually-oriented chat rooms, and engaging in interactive sexual online affairs for a free or for an consideration," it said.
Aquino's bill also prohibits any person from maintaining a business or establishment primarily engaged in these lewd acts: "Any establishment that provides Internet services for the public must devise a way to prevent any person [from having] access [to] pornographic sites, and to prevent minors from engaging in any interactive sexual online affairs and conversation," the bill said.
It is also prohibits such establishments from having a private room for sexual predators to freely commit these acts, it added.
A fine of up to one million pesos and up to 10 years imprisonment await those who would violate the proposed measure.
Aquino said that he was prompted to file the bill because of the alarmingly rapid expansion and proliferation of Internet pornography despite enactment of the Anti-Trafficking Law. He said the existing law does not have enough teeth to combat the problem.
"Curbing the growth or even attempting to eradicate the pornographic images available on the Internet, which has no national borders, is a difficult task that will require international comity. Thus, there is a need to make this act an extraterritorial crime," he said in his explanatory note.
The representative’s staff admitted though that enforcing the bill’s provisions outside the country would be problematic.
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