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Taiwan Tried to Digitize Democracy. It Was a Huge Flop

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / Getty In 2014, when hundreds of student protesters occupied Taiwan’s legislature for 23 days to protest a proposed trade agreement with China, a young civic hacker named Audrey Tang helped the students livestream their protests—giving the public an ad hoc forum to debate the merits of the trade pact. The victory of Taiwan’s Sunflower Student Movement was seismic: Not only was the pact scrapped, but it showed citizens that creating and nurturing civic space ....

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