criticism is different from insult or mockery.
Maraming Pinoy balat-sibuyas, they wouldn't know the difference. They will take offense to any criticism whatsoever and read it as personal insults. Why do you think marami ang napapatay na journalists dito?
That's why when the government decides to crack down on trying to define what is "insulting" and "offensive", it's a slippery slope because it becomes subjective.
Will I like it someone mocks me, insults my mother or craps on my beliefs? No. But I wouldn't ask for the people who do that to be killed or go to jail. It doesn't mean that I'm okay with it. It means they have the right to say what they want to say. I can ignore them, insult them back or sue them. I do not have the right to kill them or ask the government to imprison them for offending me.
That for me is a small price to pay to live in a society where a journalist can write an article critical of the government freely or where a person can practice and express an unpopular religion or religious belief or where scientists/philosophers can express new/radical/progressive ideas that might be uncomfortable to deal with at first.