Claims by the KMT that the National Communications Council intends to censor the Taiwanese Internet through a new draft bill aimed at regulating OTT providers are ironic...
A recent case involving the recruitment of Taiwanese as agents for spreading disinformation by the Chinese government has not led to a great deal of public attention. But the case is worth examining in detail...
The Tsai administration continues to face challenges regulating Chinese OTT providers, as observed in recent legislation that will ban Taiwanese companies or individuals from acting as local agents for Chinese OTT providers. OTT providers are online streaming services such as Netflix, as distinguished from traditional cable or satellite networks...
In 2020, Taiwan’s elections were subject to an extensive influence campaign by the intelligence and state security forces of China. However, in Taiwan’s case, both government and civil society actors were mostly able to resist these attempts at undue influence...
Concerns have been raised regarding the Chinese government disseminating propaganda and disinformation in Taiwan through unregulated OTT providers in past weeks by members of the pan-Green camp. OTT providers are online streaming services such as Netflix, as distinguished from traditional cable or satellite networks...
Controversy regarding a new anti-infiltration bill that the Tsai administration intends to pass before the end of the year largely proves a false issue. Namely, while Tsai seems in a rush to pass the bill before the year’s end and the KMT claims that the DPP is infringing on political freedoms and shrugging off legal oversight measures to pass the bill so quickly, it is actually quite unlikely the bill will do much to stop Chinese efforts to influence Taiwanese elections...
Reuters broke a story late last week that no less than five major Taiwanese news outlets were being paid by the Chinese government for positive press...
