Jacob Ward
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 31 Aug
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And in this case, these AGs have gotten suckered into, in my view, gotten suckered into like being part of the competitive.
of landscape in this weird way that I that I a lot of people I speak to are not crazy.
Well, but the the the way they've gotten around it, and it's a and it's a good one and it's an interesting one, I think, is that it's a design question, not a product liability
Yeah, it's a product liability question and not a and not a not a First Amendment issue.
Because what they what these cases have have built
is the the idea that these um that that the decisions being made in these product circumstances are um are basically like uh you know are are our choices like knowing design choices inside the company as opposed to
we are a neutral bulletin board through which the world is communicating.
And that that uh to me, what's so interesting about that is that it it helps us understand better
that
There is
A a behavior shaping function to this business that it has denied having.
And yet, you know, if you look at the rest of its business, you know, and I'm sure you know, I'm sure we've all looked at this is like, you know, they make their money literally off of pricing and predicting human behavior.
Like they, you know, you can you can very good at it.
Yes.
And so the idea that they that they're saying that our design choices are not changing behavior, while at the same time they're talking to their advertising, their advertising clientele and saying
We'll we'll charge you, you know, we'll let you in fact pay based on how many newsletter signups you get or how many products, you know, how many, you know, Christmas stockings you sell, you know, because we're that confident that we can find and predict behavior.
Yeah.
I think that the like w the thing that I'm trying to do to think about in this is like I'm trying not to be absolutist one way or the other.
I'm trying not to say like I'm trying not to be like a you know a like a f give a full throat endorsement to like the Australia ban.
But I don't like the idea that somehow
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