Taipei Mayor Ko Wenzhe criticized Taipei City Councilor Miao Boya’s request for civil servants to “read out the post” as “extremely humiliating”. Photo: Zhang Liangyi / photo (file photo)
The Taipei City Government’s “Internet Army Case” continued to spread. Four civil servants of the Taipei City Government were punished for using the online forum PTT at work. Among them, the Transportation Information Section Chief (Kuloda) of the Transportation Bureau was also asked by Taipei City Councilor Miao Boya to read in public. The message from PTT caused dissatisfaction with Taipei Mayor Ko Wenzhe. On the 15th, many netizens caught the PTT account of another IP in the North City Government. The civil servant also used his work time to tweet, and there were inappropriate content such as “Mr. Law Zhiqiang is a dog and wants people with different political stances to eat shit”. .
Kuomintang Taipei City Councilor Xu Qiaoxin said in a Facebook post on the evening of the 15th that she said at the meeting that many netizens found that the PTT account “bryant780417” used the city government’s IP political tweets many times during work hours, and most of the content was very outrageous. , if the defendant may have to bear legal responsibility, “for example, comparing 6/5 Mr. Law Chi-keung is a dog, asking people with different political stances to eat shit, and more unsightly content.”
Xu Qiaoxin mentioned that she was not so boring and tasteless, and did not intend to ask public servants to read tweets, but she thought that they should be treated equally. The city government has already punished 4 civil servants for using PTT at work. This one should be treated accordingly. There is no reason to scold the DPP and be punished with a public trial. check.
Xu Qiaoxin said that she clearly pointed out the accounts and IP addresses that should be investigated in the meeting room. Speaker Chen Jinxiang will ask the city government to investigate the bryant780417 account, and will report to her when the results are received. She emphasized that civil servants have different political positions, but it is not appropriate to use social software during working hours and punish them according to regulations. Section Chief, it’s really outrageous. Could it be that this person who scolds the Kuomintang and the People’s Party every day is also Ke Wenzhe’s Internet Army?”
Several civil servants of the Taipei City Government were arrested for making political remarks on PTT at work. Recently, their accounts were identified as employees of the Taipei Convention and Exhibition Industry Development Foundation surnamed Lin, staff members of the Guan Chuan Bureau, and Huang of the New Work Department of the Public Works Bureau. The employees, Lin Yusheng, director of the Transportation Information Section of the Transportation Bureau, Lu Shengzhou, director of the Political Style Office of the Public Transport Department of the Transportation Bureau, and the photographer surnamed Chen from the media affairs team of the Secretariat, were all punished.
