We made sure that the infrastructure is maintained by civil society so it’s not exactly the state’s employees coding up the systems. In Taiwan, the Reddit equivalent, the PTT, which is the bulletin board system that most people use is run by the National Taiwan University Student Club for 25 years and it’s all open source. It needs no shareholders or advertisers because it’s funded by academic budget. But because it’s in the campus on academic budget, the state does not have overreach, it’s double arm’s length from the state, and because all the president graduated from that university, it’s also not partisan.

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