Thank you so much for asking me to speak to you today.
I go back to just painting a picture of an environment of violence, fear and insidious manipulation—when you have 100% of Filipinos on the Internet on Facebook, the insidious manipulation that is used by state-sponsored actors to manipulate us.
With regard to that question, in that environment, do we truly have free will? Do we have independence? I postulate to you that we may not, that we don't, that this is the time for those who do have power and money to step up and bring up the values that are important for a democracy because at this point if you don't, silence is complicity.