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THE leader of the Cagayan de Oro Press Club (COPC) has appealed to netizens to exercise selfestraint in the use of social media even as he cried foul over those who posted and shared gory photos of the people who were killed when a truck went wayward along Cugman highway on Palm Sunday.

Msgr. Elmer Abacahin, COPC president, noted that the photos–many of which were posted on Facebook–crossed the line of decency and were offensive to the sensibilities of the friends and loved ones of the victims, and the public in general.

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Abacahin said netizens should be guided by decency and governed by rules when it comes to posting photos on deaths so that “marispitohan ang katungod sa uban.”

He said he sees no problem with the mainstream media because news organizations have codes of ethics that can be used to police their own ranks.

Abacahin said the problem is in the free-for-all social media where netizens post nearly anything they want.

Meanwhile, lawyer and former vice mayor Antonio Soriano said the Department of  Information and  Communication Technology (DICT) could step in and see if it could impose regulations in the use of social media in spreading photos that offend the sensibilities of people.

“Kining DICT bag-o ni nga department sa atong gobyerno ug sila ang  gitahasan sa pagtan-aw sa bag-o ug modernong communication technology,” Soriano said. (nitz arancon)

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