On May 13, K.S. Park spoke at a panel on platform regulation at Taiwan Internet Communications Governance Forum, the country's unique iteration responding to the UN IGF discourse. He focused on the not-so-widely-known similarity of EU's DSA and US' DMCA on one hand and the dangerous divergence of Asia's top-down platform regulations (including South Korea's new anti-disinformation law) from the EU/US model despite their professed commitment to adapt them. KS suggested as prerequisites to the successful adaptations the following three elements: firstly, executive branch should not involve itself in deciding what is illegal content; secondly, mandatory takedown regime should be avoided lest it imposes asymmetric incentives on platforms to take down even lawful contents; and thirdly, intermediary liability safe harbor should be the foundation of platform regulation as DSA and DMCA have shown.

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