After banning “hentai” — despite their lack of proper research and incorrect definitions, a member of the Philippine House of Representatives is now setting her sights on online games.
AKBAYAN Rep. Risa Hontiveros-Baraquel said in her speech during the commencement exercises at the Cebu Campus of the University of the Philippines that “online games should be treated as [an] addictive”.
Hontiveros-Baraquel also declared that playing online games did not impart the players any skills necessary to find jobs as well as keep them. On the other hand, she did praise online career databases and Google for being better at matching jobs and applicants than the Department of Labor and Employment.
All I can say is “Welcome to the Fail-ippines!”, where politicians waste taxpayer pesos on ineffective laws designed to simply pad their resumes come election time. It seems that every time election season is around the corner, we get a whole slew of inane bills, useless infrastructure projects, and mind-numbing television commercials.
Similar to the “Hentai Bill”, it appears that this congressperson failed to do her research before shooting her mouth off in front of net-savvy college grads. A simple Google search will give you so many results with statements contrary to her claims — ironic considering that she was extolling the virtues of the search engine but did not appear to be adept at its use.
Instead of all this pointless grandstanding, shouldn’t our “esteemed” representatives focus instead on defeating corruption, energizing the economy, and uplifting the minds of their fellow Filipinos? It’s sad that so many of the people in power are thinking more about censorship and limiting civil liberties than doing some real good in today’s ailing society.
JPOP Manila 
She didn’t even take time to research her statement when there are so many arguments with facts to disprove what she said.
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our government needed to be informed of what all of this about. They are misinformed and only rely on what they see? And I thought they have fucking researchers there? Shame. I am really not proud of the current status of the government.
I dont see this bill or the anti-hentai bill pushing through
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the “hentai bill”, as people have started calling it, has already been passed to law AFAIK. as for DOTA/WOW, this is probably a case of some politico trying to impress a bunch of people with some big words, but not a lot of real hardcore research. let’s just hope that this isn’t just the tip of the iceberg, and that MMORPGs are next on the chopping block of the “honorable” house of representatives.
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Hmmm, well if you guys are very concerned about this, I remember with a letter you CAN sit in a congressional hearing. You need to just prepare a letter of intent beforehand and I think you can sit in and listen to the hearings and maybe give some input.
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Already wrote her an email. Risa used to be a mentor of mine back when I was active in the student/youth movement during the ouster of Erap and after. I hope she listens.
By the way, from what I understand, that anti-hentai bill isn’t law yet. I’ll have to check with the registry, but I know they’re both Bills within the Senate and House just yet, and not full Republic Acts signed by the President.
If they DO become RAs, then it can be challenged at the Supreme Court. Two of the Senate version’s provisions/sections appear to be unconstitutional.
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“By the way, from what I understand, that anti-hentai bill isn’t law yet. I’ll have to check with the registry, but I know they’re both Bills within the Senate and House just yet, and not full Republic Acts signed by the President.”
that’s great news since that means there’s still time to mount a letter-writing protest. i am more upset about the limiting of civil liberties than i am about the open distribution of animated pornography. that kind of reasoning is similar to gun control activists blaming the gun instead of the shooter.
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What she needs is to experience gaming herself so she could see how it develops certain abilities that you can’t learn through regular channels. She needs to do some major research. Honestly though, I got to sit in one of the sessions and its really really disappointing.
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With bigger issues they need to deal with in regards to social, economic, and environmental issues, they come up with that and the hentai-bill. Geez~
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Oh, that’s great. Guess what? It was because of gaming and online gaming that I got work.
“Hontiveros-Baraquel also declared that playing online games did not impart the players any skills necessary to find jobs as well as keep them.”
Read this.
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fuck this government. they can all just suck dick and die like the moronic faggots that they are.
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“All I can say is “Welcome to the Fail-ippines!”, where politicians waste taxpayer pesos on ineffective laws designed to simply pad their resumes come election time. It seems that every time election season is around the corner, we get a whole slew of inane bills, useless infrastructure projects, and mind-numbing television commercials.”
Amen.
And… HAHA “GOOGLE-FAN” FAIL!!!
Sabi nga nung mga bata sa commercial ni Mar Roxas, mag artista at seamen na lang tayo!
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This is the lamest thing I’ve EVAR heard.
Can I repost this?
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hi there — instead of reposting, please spread the link instead:
http://magnetic-rose.net/2009/05/solons-now-fixate-on-online-games/
thanks and have a great weekend. cheers!
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