And the second thing was that because we all remember the martial law—anybody over 40 years old does remember that—whenever there’s any policy emergency or whatever that in other countries would result in censorship or takedowns, or really anything that encroaches on the freedom of speech, expression, and assembly, Taiwanese people collectively say that this is not part of the solution space. This is why we needed to overcome the infodemic—fraud, scams, whatever—with no takedowns and no censorship at all. This created a very interesting, challenging policy environment because entirely half of the policy space was unavailable, but that also forced us to co-create so that more speech, more context, and so on could actually depolarize the society without resorting to censorship.

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