You live here…
You don’t think about China?
Is there anything about Taiwan’s particular geopolitical position that you have to adjust for in digital democracy or is it truly universal?
Taiwan has a broadband as what?
Oh, yeah.
You don’t think the fact that China is in this position relative to Taiwan makes a difference with digital democracy?
Giant neighbor.
I’m conscious of the time. Anything else in the current election cycle with disinformation that you feel we didn’t talk about, that you’ve thought about recently?
That’s 2021?
Until we move to the day when social media is open source entirely and there’s protocols that are available for everyone to build on top of…
We live in a world where social media is very anti-democratic. It’s controlled by these big companies.
PTT is only one of many. The others are all very commercial. They’re all profit-seeking. In this world, what can the government do? Is there a case for breaking up these companies? Is there a case for regulating them differently? This is a debate in the US right now. I’m curious what your…
Like who?
Gogoro.
Unfortunately, Silicon Valley still rules the world. [laughs]
Facebook’s influence here is also enormous.
Is there a case for government intervention? Or is Facebook inevitably, in its DNA, going to facilitate bad things because of its profit-seeking, because it’s hegemonistic?
Yeah. You’re impressed so far with Facebook’s efforts? It’s not PR?
All right, thank you, Minister Tang. Thank you.
Yeah.
Can I ask, in our stories, we say Mr. X, Ms. Y. What pronoun do you prefer?
Yes. We can use Mx. if that’s what you prefer.
Mx.?
In many languages it’s very tough.
I see. We can do Mx.
Thank you so much.
