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
Taipei, June 15 (CNA) Chinese Television System Inc. (CTS) was fined NT$1 million (US$33,688) Wednesday for running a series of erroneous news tickers, including several stating China had invaded Taiwan, in April, according to the National Communications Commission (NCC).
The Chinese Television System (CTS) News and Info channel was fined NT$1 million (US$33,625) for erroneously running multiple news tickers that were created for disaster drills by the New Taipei City Fire Department, the National Communications Commission (NCC) said yesterday.
The channel at 7am on April 20 began broadcasting 11 different tickers, saying that New Taipei City was being attacked by Chinese guided missiles and several natural disasters were happening in the city, the commission said.
The channel’s news program at 9am also ran three news tickers announcing a volcanic eruption on Taipei’s Datunshan (大屯山), a hailstorm in the capital
Errors by Chinese Television System’s (CTS) news channel could hurt the network’s chances of broadcasting on channel 52 on cable systems that are yet to find a replacement for the vacant spot in the news block, the National Communications Commission (NCC) said yesterday.
“CTS is to undergo a three-yearly performance evaluation in August, and several cable systems have applied to have CTS News and Info air on channel 52,” NCC Deputy Chairman and spokesman Wong Po-tsung (翁柏宗) told reporters at the commission’s weekly news conference. “We would examine the commitments that CTS had made when reviewing the applications filed by cable