Kate Cox

That runs right into, do these platform providers know who you are, which runs right into identity.

At the same time, Tim Cook is like, put your driver's license into my phone.

Put your passport into the phone.

Like, I want to get rid of your wallet, but I don't want to know who you are is a very weird product stance to have.

And that's Apple's product stance right now.

So I think we're going to do a lot here.

You can see country by country, state by state.

There are so many laws that depend on knowing how old you are and what content you should access.

Australia just banned everybody under the age of 16 from having social media.

They need to know who you are.

So we're going to see a lot there because the internet as we know it is built on anonymity for a lot of very good reasons.

There's a lot of surveillance implications to changing that.

So I can pretty much guarantee we will end up doing a bunch of identity and age verification, age laws in the context of kid safety on Decoder in 2026.

That seems like a promise we can make, right, guys?

The Indian topic is ultra-fascinating.

Obviously, all the big tech companies are there.

They've spun off a lot of their own talent.

There's a lot of money in India.

The question of whether India can make its own giant multinational global tech firm on the order of a body or something kind of runs into India's own nationalism, America's nationalism.

weird Chinese geopolitics that gets weirder day by day from what I can tell.