Im melissa chan youre watching news asia thank you for joining us we tend to think of the internet with its limitless amounts of information as access to news to education to enlightenment as users learn more about the world Going Digital means you cross borders and those connections foster more interest standing but its more complicated than that china has 800000000 Internet Users but the authoritarian state has walled off parts of its internet ok but how about a democracy such as india with its 450000000 users while the country struggling with a lot of online misinformation the internet as it turns out doesnt necessarily make people smarter and we have pyloric to explain more shes a digital anthropologist and author of the next 1000000000 users digital life beyond. And the west pyle the. The framework of in terms of looking at the internet especially by the creators and the early adopters was that it was a tool for education and access to information thats been the framework that wev
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