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Online platforms that have more than 2.3 million active users would be declared “designated online platform operators” and required to disclose their recommendation algorithms in user service agreements, the draft digital intermediary service act (數位中介服務法草案) approved yesterday by the National Communications Commission (NCC) says. Previously known as the “digital communications draft act,” the formulation of the bill references the EU Digital Services Act, which the European Parliament passed in April. Like the EU Digital Services Act, the draft act regulates digital ...

A friend of mine told me that when he was a child, he once won first place in a speech contest. When he presented the award after returning home, his father threw it to the ground, shouting that it was useless. All his father valued was top performance in exams — nothing else mattered. This obsolete ideology, which prevails in many families in Taiwan, is arguably a legacy of the civil service examination system in imperial China. At a recent cultural conference, film director Wang Hsiao-ti (王小棣) said: “When the Ministry of Culture reports during the Interministerial Meeting on Cul...

Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) is fond of criticizing the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) for attacking him with “cyberwarriors.” He has said: “If the DPP continues to govern by cyberarmy, it will meet its nemesis sooner or later.” That was an impressive prediction. Before the DPP meets its nemesis, Ko’s own cyberwarriors hidden at the Taipei City Government have been exposed, one after another, despite his curse on the party. If people were asking whether he was operating a cyberarmy of his own before, they now have their answer. For example, consider Lin Yu-sheng (林育生...

Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) for the past few weeks has been embroiled in a controversy about the use of so-called cyberarmies. An accusation first surfaced on June 2, when Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Taipei City Councilor Wang Min-sheng (王閔生) said in a council hearing that the account “LoveError” had been using the Professional Technology Temple online bulletin board system to disseminate false information and attack the party. “LoveError” is reported to have said that Taiwanese had to show the “correct” political affiliation to obtain COVID-19 medicine. Along w...

Internet celebrity Liu Yu (劉宇), fed up with accusations on the online bulletin board Professional Technology Temple (PTT) that he was part of a cyberarmy seeking to change public opinion, used his influence to crowdsource an investigation of the real identity of PTT user “kuloda,” the source of these accusations. The investigation revealed the source to be Lin Yu-sheng (林育生) a department head in the Taipei Department of Transportation. Lin deleted the post — but not before his identity had been revealed — apologized to Liu and asked to be disciplined for posting on PTT during...