Many journalists think that Article 310 of the Constitution, governing slander, should be stricken. In a recent meeting hosted by the China Times, its president Huang Chao-sung noted that the number of slander cases has been rising since the lifting of martial law. Because the law is very vague, judges can reach radically different judgments.
許多新聞從業人員都指向刑法三一○條的誹謗罪，中國時報社長黃肇松指出，解嚴以來，誹謗官司一年比一年多，而因法條中的解釋空間頗大，法官的判決往往差距甚遠，經常引起廣泛討論。