So this definition is the same as is adopted on the congressional latest draft about TikTok. And so as long as this main idea is in people’s mind that this is not about whether it’s made in PRC. I mean, many employees or whatever that is not connected to the Internet, probably made in PRC, but it is about whether there is de facto control. Instead of just tracing down just some brands in some company setup and things like that, it is about a constant alert and threat indicator sharing between people about signs of de facto control. And so because of that, while there’s, like, slightly less than one quarter of taiwanese population have TikTok install on their phones, only less than 4% report it as their main social media platform, which is a very low number compared to most developed economies. So my main suggestions worldwide is just to let people understand that there’s really a foreign adversarial de facto control. This is not about partisanship. This is about this idea of a shared cognitive, shared reality, fabric of trust that these emerging technologies employed by authoritarians.

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