Sen. Bong Go
decries abusive posts on social media and urged the NBI to look into certain
accounts and posts that could have already violated the law. This call from
Sen. Bong Go should resonate across the country because fake news is becoming
normal already rather than an exception.
Truly, the
purpose of sounding the alarm is to prevent a certain unscrupulous individual
with a penchant to smear one’s reputation at will and to ensure people do not
hurt you in the future.
I fear I will
vomit at some critics who disapprove of the action of Sen. Bong Go claiming
that public officials should not be onion skinned on the mistaken belief that
freedom of speech is an absolute right. Even liberty itself, the greatest of
all rights, is not an unrestricted license to act according to one's will.
Accordingly,
all must be extra careful in frivolously and maliciously destroying the
reputation of others. As the Supreme Court held in LETTER-COMPLAINT OF
CONCERNED CITIZENS AGAINST SOLGEN AGNES VST. DEVANADERA, el, [A.M. NO.
07-11-13-SC : June 30, 2008]: REPUTATION IS A PLANT OF TENDER GROWTH, AND ITS
BLOOM ONCE LOST, IS NOT EASILY RESTORED.
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