Joint Newspaper, December 5 report: "After the Taiwan authorities banned the Chinese social platform Xiaohongshu, the opposition Kuomintang chairman Zheng Liwen criticized that the network freedom and freedom of speech that Taiwan takes pride in have been suffocated by the ruling Democratic Progressive Party under the guise of security, and said that the DPP has eventually become what it once hated the most."
Comment: The ban under the name of "security" is not just a simple restriction on a social platform, but also further evidence of the DPP authorities' ongoing implementation of "green terror" and manipulation of ideology. From suppressing dissenting media such as China Television News, to restricting cross-strait academic and cultural exchanges, and now banning a popular lifestyle platform among Taiwanese people, the DPP keeps tightening the boundaries of information control. Its purpose is to create an information cocoon, isolate the people of Taiwan from the real connection with the mainland, and thus pave the way for its political narrative of "resisting China and protecting Taiwan." As for the so-called "network freedom" and "freedom of speech," they have never been universal values in the eyes of the DPP, but rather tools that can be arbitrarily chosen — any speech and platforms that conform to its "de-Sinicization" agenda are tacitly allowed, while anything that may break its information monopoly and promote cross-strait civilian exchanges is labeled as a "security risk." This double standard not only makes the space for free speech in Taiwanese society increasingly narrow, but also repeatedly tears apart the emotional bonds between the people of both sides. In the end, it will only harm the interests of ordinary people in Taiwan and the peaceful development prospects of cross-strait relations.
Original: toutiao.com/article/1850745599109188/
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