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SUPREME COURT

PADRE FAURA

MANILA

MELENCIO S.STA.MARIA, SEDFREY M.

CANDELARIA, AMPARITA STA. MARIA,

RAY PAOLO J. SANTIAGO, GILBERT V.

SEMBRANO, and RYAN JEREMIAH D.

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HONORABLE PAQUITO OCHOA &n "&

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HONORABLE LEILA DE LIMA &n

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HONORABLE MANUEL RO1AS &n "&

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PETITION FOR CERTIORARI

Petitioners, by undersigned counsel, to this most Honorble !u"reme Court

res"ect#ully stte$

PREFATORY STATEMENT

%E&"erience should tech us to be most on our gurd to

"rotect liberty 'hen the go(ernment)s "ur"oses re

bene#icient* +en born to #reedom re nturlly lert to

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re"el in(sion o# their liberty by e(il-minded rulers* The

greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious

encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without

understanding. .ustice /ouis 0* 1rndeis2

This Petition ssils in the strongest terms imginble 'ht m3ority in

Congress House o# Re"resentti(es nd !ente2 hs dr#ted nd 'ht the

E&ecuti(e, through President 1enigno A4uino III, hs signed into l'* Petitioners

humbly come be#ore this ugust body nd most res"ect#ully "ry tht its Honorble

+embers, cting collecti(ely s the third gret brnch o# go(ernment, e&ercise

their constitutionl duty to unnimously CHEC5 the unconstitutionl cts o#

Congress nd the Presidency*

This is cse o# trnscendentl im"ortnce, #irst o# its 6ind in our history*

This 'ill herld the entry o# this Honorble !u"reme Court into 'orld o# cyber

communiction tht is "er"etully cti(e, globl nd #ree* According to the 788

!outhest Asi 0igitl Consumer Re"ort,

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thirty-three "ercent 99:2 o# Fili"inosh(e ccessed the internet 'ithin the t'el(e-month "eriod, trnslting to bout

thirty-one million 98,777,7772 users* There re multi-millions more in other "rts

o# the 'orld, regrdless o# rce, religion, culture nd bc6ground, 6no'ingly or

not, 'ho 'ill be ##ected by the ssiled l' nd, e(entully, by the decision o#

this Honorble !u"reme Court*

As the ssiled l' 'ill immeditely im"ct on the rights o# e(ery Fili"ino

on the Internet ; oursel(es, our s"ouses, our children, our "rents, our em"loyers,

our 'or6ers, our trders, our techers nd students ; there is urgency in this

"etition* At the sme time, there is urgent need, s 'ell s 'isdom, to

understanding how the Internet is expanding and evolving our very concepts of

free expression.

The 'orld hs chnged nd is chnging* It hs become smller*

Communictions h(e gro'n #ster nd more direct* Thn6s to the Internet, "eo"le

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