The Philippines Supreme Court upheld a ruling suspending the law license of an attorney for one year following Facebook remarks he posted containing defamatory statements about a cosmetic surgeon. The medical director of Belo Medical Group Inc., Maria Victoria G. Belo-Henares, had applied to the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) to have Roberto Guevarra disbarred for the insulting and threatening remarks he posted on Facebook about her and her company. The IBP dismissed Guevarra’s defenses of privacy, fair criticism and freedom of speech. Upholding the IBP's findings, the Court reasoned that even if Guevarra had used Facebook's privacy tools to limit the dissemination of the remarks, this did not guarantee absolute protection. The Court also held that his defamatory statements overstepped the permissible boundaries of the right to freedom of expression and fair criticism since they were made with malice intending to insult and tarnish the reputation of Belo-Henares and her company.