Balaji Srinivasan

Coming back.

Point is that once we realize that we now have

speech has opened borders for ideology.

We have, let's call it American anarchy in the digital world, right?

Everybody's yelling at each other.

Everybody's shouting.

The opposite of that, call it Chinese control.

Total top-down, centralized, authoritarian, you know, you have no choice.

The party determines what can be said and so on and so forth.

And the thing is, a lot of people feel

as a prediction, not an endorsement, go to that, like Carney is going to that, and Canada's going to that, Europe is going to that, because the alternative is too much for them.

However, I think we can fashion what I call an internet intermediate, where people opt in to constraints, okay?

Like when you sign a contract, that's a right libertarian way of talking about it.

Or when you consent to something, that's a left libertarian way of talking about it, right?

Consent to a contract.

Okay.

You've given, you know, ongoing affirmative consent.

You can constrain yourself or agree to something in some way.

For example, when you walk into somebody's house, you know, actually, you know, the Envoy iPad things?

Right.