David Sacks
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I don't know.
By the way, there are some people, Zach, that fly in.
You don't have zero days in state at this point in time.
No.
Is that how it's counted?
Nice and rusted.
Well, look, there's no question that the trial lawyers want to turn Meta into RJR and Nabisco and the cigarette companies and try to fit their fact pattern around that.
I just think that the activity is fundamentally different than smoking.
I mean, smoking is manifestly harmful to you regardless of what your age is.
And the only reason we allow it is because of assumption of risk.
It's a free country.
I think in the case of social networking, it's much more unclear.
what the harms are and what the benefits are.
And I think it's much more subjective and it's much more of a personal choice for adults and also for parents.
Friedberg, one area where I disagree with you a little bit is you said the harms of this are immense and well-known and understood.
If that's the case, then let's just ban it for under 13 or under 16 or whatever it is.
But I don't think that's the case.
And because it's unclear, I think it's up to parents to decide what's appropriate for their families.
And at the end of the day, I think the right way to deal with this is parental empowerment.
You give parents the controls to set screen time limits or to decide what apps their kids install.