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This might not be true though. I have heard that during the broadcast they had been supporting Hong Kong. Not saying this is the wrong thing to do though but just a fact.


If you've just heard it that does not make it a fact just yet.


All they did was ask him to say to slogan according to the people on reddit, something he was going to say regardless.


Wiki page of Audrey Tang: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Tang

She also has many very inspiring talks on slideshare about open source software.


One of her projects, EtherCalc, is my preferred spreadsheet software of choice. So it's a bit of a context shift to see political interviews! But her position on combating disinformation without censorship seems pretty on-point, and where I'd really like to see the conversation shift here.


Audrey Tang was also an author in The Architecture of Open Source Applications (AOSA):

https://aosabook.org/en/500L/web-spreadsheet.html

Chinese (Traditional): https://github.com/aosabook/500lines/blob/master/spreadsheet...

https://aosabook.org/en/socialcalc.html

You can check the series out in its entirety at https://aosabook.org


omg her omni-talks with civil society groups are amazing. So long but SO CHOCK FULL of information.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tc_5bM0zSM

Transcript in case that's quicker: https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/Fork-the-government-CES--AeVW9...

She was talking about this article's tactics at Open Government Partnership Summit last week, but mostly emphasized the feline nature of some of the counter-propaganda :) https://twitter.com/audreyt/status/1134532549957394432

And for a look at how she's rockin transparency in gov, check out her log of ALL convos she has with ANY non-gov stakeholders: https://pdis.nat.gov.tw/en/track/


Upvoted, just so people would read the wiki page (y)

That's who I want as a digital minister!


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