I can’t say this is pointless and sometimes it’s important enough to take a stance on it even if not much will change. Following disgraced entertainer Mickey Huang getting probation, a fine, and writing an apology letter for purchasing 7 videos of hardcore child porn discovered through a raid of the illegal website, some government officials and stars are publicly parroting a demand for 5 changes to the laws and prison system to better protect children. The demand includes harsher sentences for child sexual offenses, a child sexual offender registry and priors to track, mandatory mental health evaluations in prison offenders to treat the underlying compulsions, required mental health treatment in probation, and harsher punishment for the disseminators of child abuse. For someone like Mickey, at least his public career is over over, he’s not coming back, but it does frustrate that he’s not serving some hard time.
Whenever I read about this I am once again shocked their laws are so terribly weak when it comes to CP. He would have gotten at least 5 years in jail, at least, in many other countries and it would have been a slam dunk, celeb or not. Look at late Mark Salling. Instead he walks.
Good on these people trying to get it to change, even if they don’t succeed now.
Arron Yan was let off too…
That Arron shit makes my blood boil ,he is even preparing for a comeback I heard
With a new ‘good luck’ name… Goodness…
@HL Sounds like Twilight Zone nonsense to me. The guy seems delusional at best. Responding to the name change thing 🤦🏻♀️
Not only sex offender law, many other laws are also crappy. The worst is that the Legislative Yuan is known to be a circus of political clowns. Taiwanese voters are serious about the presidential election cos they think the president decides the fate Taiwan. But voting for local governors and legislative representatives are different stories. You could find quite a few of these elected officials oftentimes had been embroiled in some serious legal cases, e.g., insider trading, briberies, and other financial fraud including the most recent high-key scam involving an out-spoken online influencer-turned lawmaker. LMAO. Most of these crimes were committed by members of the former ruling party KMT of dictatorship.
Both Mickey Huang and his mentor in the T-ent (Chang Hsiao-Yen) are out-spoken pro China entertainers.
I’m glad some people are brave enough to call out this and request real legislative change. This whole thing has me in utter disbelief about the weakness of the laws to protect children. Sadly, it says a lot about a country when a negligible fine and “writing an apology letter” for purchasing graphic cp is considered acceptable punishment. What an utterly disgusting insult to the victims.
I’m really glad the entertainers are adding their voice to it. It’s simple logic I think. Children are the future of a nation, they are the leaders of tomorrow, a nation that doesn’t take child protection seriously of all things is digging it’s own demise. The law makers have to wake up truly and reform laws. Also, I don’t watch Taiwan movies or dramas so I’m not sure, I’m just guessing right now, but if there movies and dramas are mostly always about love and romance and what not then the entertainment industry itself should do better and take their share of the blame. I’d think they should use the movie industry to address issues that are ravaging their country. Take for example, the movie Silenced led to a demonstration in South Korea and also I appreciate the movie Kim Ji Young born 1982, it addresses issues that are very much faced by some korean moms/women. Even the glory drew people’s attention to the level of bullying that happens in their educational system. So if the industry isn’t taking societal issues seriously they really need to buckle up, not just talk and do nothing from their own space.