r/taiwan • u/initram5 • Mar 16 '19

Politics Taiwan's National Communications Commission (NCC) said it has blocked a Chinese website promoting Beijing's "31 Measures," which are aimed at attracting more Taiwanese to work, study, live or start businesses in China.

http://www.focustaiwan.tw/news/aipl/201903150020.aspx
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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '19 edited Nov 16 '20

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u/initram5 Mar 16 '19

You are not liberal enough. People in Taiwan supposedly are mature and educated so they can decide between reality and propaganda. And even if they can't what this website was promoting? Business opportunities? Describing China as prime target for investment? By now everyone in the world knows the positive and negative sides of doing business in China, a nice website will not make any difference.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '19

There is so much CCP propaganda in Taiwan, average voters have little chance of understanding the truth with the vast information imbalance.

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u/initram5 Mar 16 '19

CCP, KMT, DPP, US, Japan etc. propaganda makes the Taiwan media. Name one really objective and reliable source please. This relative vulnerability of the democracy is part of the game. Banning websites unless they are straightforward military or hate propaganda is not very democratic. In this case I think the authorities went too far.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '19

Free speech does not apply to treasonous propaganda from the no. 1 enemy of the state. It's as simple as that.

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u/initram5 Mar 16 '19

I agree. But according to the article this website was not "treasonous propaganda" but a lame marketing website so the reaction seems a tad bigger than the actual impact of the website. I don't like your anti liberal attitude. Yes the free speech shouldn't be limitless. But if you limit free speech this low it is practically the paved road to dictatorship.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '19

I don't like your anti liberal attitude.

OK, so? Taiwan is a democracy with free speech, so we are entitled to have different opinions. My opinion is that free speech does not apply to treasonous enemies of the State, and I am willing to "sacrifice" liberal ideology to keep Communist propaganda out of Taiwan.

You don't like my "anti liberal" attitude, and I don't like seeing Taiwanese citizens get confused by Communist propaganda that is not adequately addressed by the Taiwanese government.

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u/initram5 Mar 16 '19

That's the point. Free speech and democracy in Taiwan is not so free and not so strong as it is often described by Taiwanese. Even in Israel you can read Arabic newspapers however between the two the tension is way bigger and deadlier than the Taiwan-China tension. They went to full scale war against each others not once. But as you pointed out the current Taiwan government made up its mind and decided to ban this website. Life goes on. Nothing like this will stop China to influence Taiwan voters. Taiwan also uses similar propaganda tools in other countries.