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Chinese content farms use hundreds of fake accounts to reach 'every corner of society,

A social media post implying that Tainan Mayor Huang Wei-che (黃偉哲) was an informant for the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) authoritarian regime when he was a college student was sent from an IP address in the Philippines, Tainan police said yesterday. Posted on the Professional Technology Temple online bulletin board on Nov. 15 last year, the post insinuated that Huang, of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), had worked as an informant for the KMT when he was a National Taiwan Universi...

/ Staff writer, with CNAA social media post implying that Tainan Mayor Huang Wei-che （黃偉哲） was an informant for the Chinese Nationalist Party （KMT） authoritarian regime when he was a college student was sent from an IP address in the Philippines, Tainan police said yesterday.

The Kenting National Park Headquarters yesterday said it would increase nighttime patrols on beaches in the park in Pingtung County, after New Year’s Eve revelers left them covered in used firework shells and other trash. Park officials said they had received numerous complaints, adding that they had issued a reminder that setting off fireworks in the park is illegal and subject to fines. Local residents posted images of the waste on the Professional Technology Temple (PTT) online bulletin boa...

Google and Facebook would face stricter rules of accountability under a digital communications bill to be considered by the legislature, National Communications Commission (NCC) Chairman Chen Yaw-shyang (陳耀祥) said yesterday. The commission on Wednesday unveiled the framework of the bill at a news conference in Taipei, saying that it was designed to regulate online platforms, as well as Internet service providers and caching service providers. The bill would divide the operators of digital ...

The Directorate-General of Highways (DGH) on Sunday said that it was investigating whether its Internet protocol (IP) address had been abused to tamper with a Wikipedia entry on Raphael Lin (林秉樞), who has been accused of assaulting Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Kao Chia-yu (高嘉瑜). A person, identified as “Kusowan,” on Sunday wrote on the Professional Technology Temple (PTT) bulletin board that he found in a Wikipedia editing log that an entry on the domestic abuse case ...

Freedom of speech does not include the right to purposefully inflict harm on victims of domestic abuse while hiding in anonymity, Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Mark Ho (何志偉) said yesterday, one day after he had urged the closure of a bulletin board system on which people had accusations against DPP Legislator Kao Chia-yu (高嘉瑜), who is accusing her boyfriend of domestic abuse. Freedom of speech and the diversity of opinions should be protected, and Taiwanese libel laws...

In our neoliberal, corporate capitalist world, things fall into just two categories, the useful and the discarded. Useful things are exploited until used up, then moved to the other category and forgotten. In Taiwan, that includes children. Last week the Social Work Department with the Taiwan Fund for Children and Families (TFCF) sounded an alert: the nation’s young are being eaten alive. Suicide and suicidal thoughts among teenagers are spiking. According to a survey of over 600 young peopl...

A series of posts on the country’s most popular online bulletin board system using Islamic terms to create puns relating to Taiwanese politics has prompted a response from the Islamic Association of Taiwan. Mistransliterated references to the Prophet Mohammed, the Taliban and the Koran were used to mock Vice President William Lai (賴清德), the pan-green camp and the “anti-blue script” on the Professional Technology Temple (PTT) Web site, the association said on its Web site on Friday. I...

A student at National Chengchi University jumped from the roof of his apartment in the early hours of Sunday after he was allegedly bullied online. The 21-year-old student, surnamed Huang (黃), on Friday last week posted on the university’s online discussion forum asking the public to judge a dispute he was having with a female roommate about rent. An anonymous post on the online forum Dcard appeared on the same day, saying he was the last person to judge others, and that he was “a heavy s...