Jason

Apparently they didn't want you to be part of this.

They didn't want me too close.

Yeah.

But we finally got you an invitation.

Your invitation did not get lost in the mail.

My invitation didn't get lost in the mail this time.

For those of you who watch the pod, you know what I'm talking about.

Inside joke.

Yes.

But it's great to be here and great to be here at USA House.

Thanks to all the sponsors and really delighted for our first guest for the pod.

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...