Let me ask you then a bigger question about this. So, my perception is that all of this has made Taiwan’s democracy stronger. Across the world, all the evidence is that technology has made democracy weaker. It has helped authoritarians, it has broken apart democracies. Is the reason it’s worked in Taiwan, maybe I’ll give you three options. Option one, Taiwan is a very small relatively unified country with a gigantic enemy that wants to destroy it so they pay attention to this stuff. That’s option one. Option two, Taiwan had this revolution in 2014 where people came to power and all these saintly nerds took control. Option three, it’s actually just a bunch of software choices and, if the US had chosen other software choices and had set different incentives on different platforms, you could do it too. So, I’m curious whether you think it’s one, two or three or the weights of them?

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