SORRY SIGHT ON CYBERCRIMES!

SORRY SIGHT ON CYBERCRIMES!

The lecture of sir Beav last Tuesday about the issues on digitization zeroing in on cybercrime struck me for a reason. I want to share an experience depicting cybercrime, as an activity which is already being operated widely in our country by people who are sick and insane.

I tried to wind back my memories when I used to work as a hands on publicist (read: tagging along with the raiding team) of Bitag Live of Ben Tulfo where the program exposes illegal activities including cybercrime like cybersex.

Yap! While most of the people indulge themselves with the satisfaction and the support new media brings, there are also some users, majority of them are minors, who are willing victims of cybersex because of economical reason: the need to survive in this material world where having money means power to buy.

I had a chance to have a personal experience in hitting a cybercrime when I tagged along with the raiding team busting a cybersex den where I saw girls whom I think were in their adolescence stage strutting it out in front of the computer camera and monitor, fully naked. It was indeed a very sorry sight considering that these little girls were supposed to be in the schools busy with their academic lessons or perhaps in the streets playing with their buddies.

The evolution of technology is so fast and our lawmakers are just starting to study and enact laws in connection with the rapid scattering of illegal activities in cyber space.

With our experience mentioned above and considering the development of technology with great speed , can we still control and regulate the almost absolute freedom that we are experiencing in using the new media especially on illegal activities? 

   That is one question which is also a move to call the attention of our authorities to act on these cybercrimes rapidly so we can spare our children to become victims of this kind of criminal act in cyber space.

  It is also worthy to note how the Republic of China secure their cyberspace by putting up the Great Firewall of China. 

   The Republic of China struck a deal with Google in 2006 to have a search engine that have launched as an official Internet Service Provider that has a self-censorship which protects illegal and unnecessary content to the consideration of the country.

    In the protection of their country’s national security and threats, even cyber terrorism, China decided to build architecture of censorship and information control that can challenge and empower technology since it have been seen that China is a source of spam mails and a hub for ICT development.

     The internet censorship in Mainland China started when various threats were made, hence, a technology was introduced which controls and monitors the internet traffic. It also filters the system and tends to block out specific information or sites but this kind of technology in China didn’t stop from there and as the new technology evolves so does their restrictions. 

       Now, can our local officials policing our cyberspace do the same thing and have the will power to control our own local cybercrimes?