David Sacks

Sarah Rogers is the Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy at the State Department.

For members here who don't know this position or what you've been charged with or what you've decided to work on, I'm curious about that.

Do they tell you what to do or do you come up with your own mandate?

But yeah, tell us everything about what you're doing.

You seem particularly focused on...

freedom of speech and a little bit of tension between our standards and the companies in America, which have made the move to being strongly freedom of speech, something that kind of got lost in our industry for a couple of years in technology, but has now made, I think, some significant progress on, does seem like some folks in Europe don't share our love of freedom of speech.

Maybe you could explain to us

what the tension is today, and what some of the regulations are that have been put in place in Europe.

And to be clear...

No one is saying, certainly not the State Department or America, hey, you can't have your own platforms in Europe.

Build your own.

Build your own Facebook.

Build your own Instagram.

Build your own Twitter slash X, TikTok, whatever you'd like to build.

And you can have whatever standards you like on your platforms.

We're saying, hey, these are our platforms.

This is our standard.

And we don't want our users or our platforms to be receiving fines.

That's our position.

Hey, David, when we look at, and I'm asking you this one so I can give you a pass on it, but what do you think people are so scared of in the UK when it comes to freedom of speech?