Current Events Week 7

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/10/world/asia/philippine-high-court-suspends-contentious-internet-law.html?ref=world

Today the Philippines High Court suspended a controversial new law that could lead to imprisonment for those who sharing posts on social media such as Twitter and Facebook. This suspension is for 120 days only. The Cyber Crime Prevention Act had 15 petitions for it to be suspended before today. The law had given the government to block any website and track the web history of any web user. I agree with the decision to suspend the law because people should be able to do what they want on the internet with little interference form the government. This affects law in the US because this can be used as a precedent for the government to not monitor the internet as much and can deter the government from using laws such as this.