I think this is inherently very democratic because if you just publish something perfect on the internet, people just press “like” and then scroll away. But because I published half-finished thoughts online, people really co-created, debated, and gave me very good feedback. In the earlier era in Taiwan, before we first had a presidential election in 1996, I participated as a young child in the earlier civic movements—for example, around the consumer cooperative movement, the consumer’s rights movements, and many other movements, including spiritual-related movements and charity movements. These were kind of the only ways the Taiwanese people could assemble and associate before they had the right to form political parties or newspapers, and so on.

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