{"id":15573,"date":"2024-08-17T09:37:45","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T07:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/17\/the-good-hacker-can-taiwanese-activist-turned-politician-audrey-tang-detoxify-the-internet\/"},"modified":"2024-08-17T09:37:45","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T07:37:45","slug":"the-good-hacker-can-taiwanese-activist-turned-politician-audrey-tang-detoxify-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/17\/the-good-hacker-can-taiwanese-activist-turned-politician-audrey-tang-detoxify-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"The good hacker: can Taiwanese activist turned politician Audrey Tang detoxify the internet?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the \u2018civic hacker\u2019 who became Taiwan\u2019s first transgender cabinet minister, she is used to breaking boundaries. What can the rest of the world learn from her vision of a happy and inclusive web?<\/p>\n

Audrey Tang didn\u2019t have the easiest of starts in life. The Taiwanese hacker turned government minister was told at the age of four that she had a 50-50 chance of dying unless she had a major operation to fix a hole in her heart. Her doctor told her she could drop down dead at any moment if she got overexcited \u2013 and she had to wait eight more years for the op. This kind of news might bring out someone\u2019s selfish side \u2013 if your life is going to be so truncated, live for yourself. Not Tang, though. She was a tiny child with a whopping IQ and a precocious capacity to think. She decided she wanted to learn everything she could and share it with the world. At five, living with her family in Taipei, she started reading prodigiously \u2013 mainly classical Chinese literature. Huge tomes. Then she\u2019d recount her own version of the stories to her classmates. \u201cI liked storytelling. When I was seven I\u2019d speak to the entire school about stories I\u2019d learned from a book and retell them in a way I found more interesting.\u201d Did she realise she was super bright back then? She shakes her head. \u201cNo, I realised I was super ill.\u201d<\/p>\n

By six Tang was studying advanced mathematics; at eight she started writing code for video games, using pencil and paper because she didn\u2019t yet own a computer. And whatever she learned, it was with the intention of sharing her knowledge. Before long it became apparent she was a digital genius. Tang, 43, is roughly the same age as the internet (1 January 1983 is considered its birthday). She grew up alongside the world wide web; it was her playmate. In her teens, Tang believed the internet was there to bring her vision to fruition: to democratise knowledge, to make everything accessible, to make the world a better place. <\/strong>But then she saw it changing, being used to spread falsehoods and generate all-powerful companies that made digital capitalism\u2019s founding fathers unfeasibly rich while creating unimagined levels of inequality.<\/p>\n

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\nAs the \u2018civic hacker\u2019 who became Taiwan\u2019s first transgender cabinet minister, she is used to breaking boundaries. What can the rest of the world learn from her vision of a happy and inclusive web?
\nAudrey Tang didn\u2019t have the easiest of starts in life. The Taiwanese hacker turned government minister was told at the age of four that she had a 50-50 chance of dying unless she had a major operation to fix a hole in her heart. Her doctor told her she could drop down dead at any moment if she got overexcited \u2013 and she had to wait eight more years for the op. This kind of news might bring out someone\u2019s selfish side \u2013 if your life is going to be so truncated, live for yourself. Not Tang, though. She was a tiny child with a whopping IQ and a precocious capacity to think. She decided she wanted to learn everything she could and share it with the world. At five, living with her family in Taipei, she started reading prodigiously \u2013 mainly classical Chinese literature. Huge tomes. Then she\u2019d recount her own version of the stories to her classmates. \u201cI liked storytelling. When I was seven I\u2019d speak to the entire school about stories I\u2019d learned from a book and retell them in a way I found more interesting.\u201d Did she realise she was super bright back then? She shakes her head. \u201cNo, I realised I was super ill.\u201d
\nBy six Tang was studying advanced mathematics; at eight she started writing code for video games, using pencil and paper because she didn\u2019t yet own a computer. And whatever she learned, it was with the intention of sharing her knowledge. Before long it became apparent she was a digital genius. Tang, 43, is roughly the same age as the internet (1 January 1983 is considered its birthday). She grew up alongside the world wide web; it was her playmate. In her teens, Tang believed the internet was there to bring her vision to fruition: to democratise knowledge, to make everything accessible, to make the world a better place. But then she saw it changing, being used to spread falsehoods and generate all-powerful companies that made digital capitalism\u2019s founding fathers unfeasibly rich while creating unimagined levels of inequality. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the \u2018civic hacker\u2019 who became Taiwan\u2019s first transgender cabinet minister, she is used to breaking boundaries. What can the rest of the world learn from her vision of a happy and inclusive web? Audrey Tang didn\u2019t have the easiest of starts in life. The Taiwanese hacker turned government minister was told at the age …<\/p>\n

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