Audrey Tang

So, in a similar fashion, we invited taxi drivers, Uber drivers, passengers, rural communities and others to chime in online. As a rule, we said: You have to get through to the other group. When new ideas win more than 85% cross-group approval — when they cross the bridge — they become the agenda for ministerial consideration. With the Polis method, we ended up with a very coherent set of proposals: all Uber cars must become taxi fleets, but the taxi medallion is changed so that you can have surge pricing; you do not undercut existing taxi meters; you have fair insurance rules; you must serve rural areas — and the rural service came from co-ops using the same dispatch app — and so on. It turned out nobody disagreed with those things. They had simply been buried in the anti-social corner of social media: reasonable ideas, hidden by a recommendation algorithm that prioritises engagement. By switching people from anti-social media to pro-social media, we tapped into the polarisation and overcame it.

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