Sure. It’s called Good Enough Ancestor , and it tells the story of Taiwan’s democratization. I was born into a family of journalists—both of my parents are journalists—and they had to work within the martial law era’s rules, which were very censorious. By the time we truly democratized in 1996, when we had our first presidential election, it was already the time of browsers and the World Wide Web. So from the very beginning, internet freedom and our democratic freedom have been the same thing in Taiwan. We’ve innovated a lot on how to defend our democracy without sacrificing our freedom. Even though our own martial law era is over, we still have an authoritarian neighbor—Beijing—that wants to push this authoritarian agenda.

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