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Taiwan has found a way to use a carefully designed social network constructively.
As stated in the Tyee,
Taiwan Is Crowdsourcing an Everybody-Wins Democracy
They had to do something. In 2014,
Opponents to the bill felt not just defeated, but invisible. The government had promised to listen to their concerns, but simply hadn't done so, rushing the bill onto the parliament floor. They had the votes; they could get it through. So that evening, protesters scaled the fence, kicked the door open and streamed onto the floor of Taiwan's parliament, the Legislative Yuan.
Sound familiar from recent history?
Well, the government found a way to listen.
They set up vTaiwan, a social network where prominence is given to posts that further concord instead of discord. And they're using it to craft proposals for legislation. Anyone can contribute.
The article doesn't state how the social network determines which posts promote consensus. I'd like to know.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 13 2021, @04:33AM
Not sure where you get that from. But it will be interesting to see what the Biden administration will do regarding China.
One has to have balls of adamantium or mentally insane to take on China today - we know which one Trump fits into. Will be interesting to see what Biden does. On paper, you'd think it is actually in America's (not just the elites but the nation as a whole) best interest in the long term to curb their dependency on China.