The National Communications Commission’s (NCC) draft digital services act is an attempt to control freedom of expression and would make the free, democratic Republic of China an autocratic state, the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) said yesterday.
The draft act, which the council approved last week, would impose levels of obligations on five categories of large online platforms.
It would also establish special provisions for platforms that have more than 2.3 million domestic users — which would include YouTube, Facebook, Yahoo Auctions and DCard — with contraventions of the rules to draw fines of up to NT$10 million (US$335,965).
However, KMT lawmakers accused the