The Government Information Office (GIO; Chinese: 新聞局; pinyin: Xīnwén Jú) was a cabinet-level agency of the Executive Yuan of the Republic of China (Taiwan) in charge of promoting government policies and regulating domestic media.
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“And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. To avoid that evil, government will redouble the causes of it; and then it will become inveterate and incurable.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
“The real, then, is that which, sooner or later, information and reasoning would finally result in, and which is therefore independent of the vagaries of me and you. Thus, the very origin of the conception of reality shows that this conception essentially involves the notion of a COMMUNITY, without definite limits, and capable of a definite increase of knowledge.”
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