Thursday was the third and last day of the 2024 Asia blockchain Summit one panel featured Hollywood star Joseph Gordon LoveIt he was joined by former digital Minister arrey Tang an American Economist and the co-founder of ethum during their panel the four discussed the potential threats that Tik Tok poses to taiwan's democracy fans wait to meet Indian astrologer aiga Anand at the 2024 Asia blockchain Summit on the event's final day big names drew a big crowd thank Audrey for inviting me to be here in Taiwan is my first time in this country I've been here for a few days with my family I'm so happy to be here Hollywood actor Joseph Gordon levit known for films like 500 Days of Summer and Inception attended as the founder of an online collaborative media platform he said he felt inspired by taiwan's democracy like you said I as an American who is suffering through a a sort of a low bandwidth and low touch democracy I'm I take a lot of inspiration and and and hope I think there is a lot to be said about making Civics education like people younger than 18 having the full capacity to already set agenda for the society a fellow panelist was former digital Minister Audrey Tang who's now a senior fellow at the project Liberty Institute a nonprofit for digital democracy she was joined by Glenn while who set the record as the youngest economics professor at the University of Chicago another panelist was vitalic buaran the 30-year-old co-founder of ethereum the four discussed how social media interacts with democracy as well as the National Security concerns posed by Tik Tok some people see this as a good thing some people think that Tik Tok is a threat to National Security and where do you come down on that what's your opinion of the the Tik Tok devest well I mean uh when I served uh as digital Minister uh we also have a cyber security management act Tang said that the opacity of Tik tok's algorithms limit users ability to choose what they see she said that privacy concerns aside the app could be used by China to spread propaganda