On June 29, 2022, the National Communications Commission (“NCC”) announced a bill of the Digital Intermediary Service Act (“DISA”) for public consultation. The DISA was formerly named the Digital Communications and Broadcasting Act (“DCBA”) and the Digital Communications and Broadcasting Service Act. A bill of the DCBA had been submitted to the Legislative Yuan for deliberation in November 2017, along with a bill of the Telecommunications Management Act. After an overhaul by reference to the proposed draft Digital Service Act of the EU, the DISA mainly regulates digital intermediary (“DI”) service providers instead, and the number of provisions has also increased from 29 to 58. The main points of the DISA are as follows:
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