Yes. So it started, I guess, as a protest in March 2014, where people did not like the fast-tracking of a trade deal with Beijing that would have invited Huawei, ZTE, and so on into our 4G infrastructure and our publishing industry. But very quickly, we turned our protest into a demo. Not just against the trade deal, but for a new way of democracy that invites the half-million people on the street and more online to—in small groups of ten—have a real conversation about what preferences were acceptable when dealing with Beijing and trade deals in general.

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