How to get away with criticism on social media without being labeled a terrorist by Mocha

DEFENDERS of the Anti-Terrorism bill make it a point to argue that nowhere is it stated there that activism and being a critic are equated with terrorism. Both House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano and Senate President Vicente Sotto 3rd said so. Indeed, Section 4 of the bill states that terrorism “…shall not include advocacy, protest, dissent, stoppage of work, industrial or mass action, and other similar exercises of civil and political rights, which are not intended to cause death or serious physical harm to a person, to endanger a person’s life, or to create a serious risk to public safety.”

And still, and even before the bill can be signed into law by President Rodrigo Duterte, Overseas Workers’ Welfare Administration (OWWA) Deputy Administrator Margaux Uson, aka Mocha Uson, has already shown Cayetano and Sotto precisely what is feared by many when she labeled people who demonstrated against the Anti-Terrorism bill as terrorists.