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more types of digital poverty are overlapped, the more various factors should be considered in
policy design and practice, and social networks and social capital are not enough to significantly
change the poverty status of the digital extremely poor. Second, in the policy design of reducing the
absence or insufficiency of digital ability, digital psychology, digital efforts, digital social support,
digital impact, etc., social networks and social capital should be fully considered, and strong ties in
social networks should be emphasized in order to make the digital poor be more dependent on their
own social networks besides seeking external help to achieve sustainable poverty alleviation in the
digital vision. Third, in the socially lonely who are lack of digitally social support, heterogeneous
resources and ability caused by weak ties also need to be valued while strong ties are strengthened.
Fourth, it should be treated with caution whether digital resisters need to be helped to get rid of
poverty.

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