By Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporterTwo Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) legislators yesterday said they suspect the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) of monitoring the Internet under the guise of fighting misinformation, while actually trying to frame public discussion to its own benefit. The former classmate and her mother would be willing to talk about the experience in person, he added. Chen was referring to a controversy over Tsai’s doctoral dissertation. Tsai has filed a defamation lawsuit against Ho, Lin and Peng over the matter. KMT Legislator Lin Yi-hua (林奕華) at the news conference questioned whether police were trying to cause a “chilling effect” to make people afraid of expressing their opinions online.

Source: Taipei Times December 24, 2019 15:56 UTC