Legislators in Taiwan are debating the effectiveness of laws meant to prevent and punish the sale of child pornography following a sex abuse scandal involving celebrity Mickey Huang.
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00:00 Taiwanese lawmakers are calling for a crackdown on child pornography amid
00:04 growing outrage over a celebrity scandal. Television host Mickey Huang was
00:09 recently fined after police discovered pornographic videos featuring
00:12 underage girls in his possession. There has been public backlash with people
00:16 saying the punishment is too light, prompting criticism against Taiwan's
00:19 relatively lax child pornography laws. The government has also faced fallout
00:23 for not immediately taking down the website where Huang purchased the
00:26 illegal videos. Legislators are now proposing harsher sentencing as well as
00:30 technological solutions to block illegal content including using AI.