Lex Fridman

Is Europe over-regulated?

From a tech perspective.

I mean, is there some paralyzing aspects?

If I look at the case of somebody I've become close with, Paolo Durov, he was blamed directly by the French government for the kind of things his, quote, platform was hosting.

I could see the same kind of stuff, basically, just as an example, VLC being blamed for the kind of videos that people are watching.

I mean, that's the pressure that people worry about because if you have to think about that kind of stuff when you're kind of just obsessed about... No, you don't think about it, and that's...

But what if they come in?

What if they show up?

There is no office.

Video Land doesn't have an office.

I mean, what's happened with Pablo, they arrested him, right?

So arrested him for particular videos or particular content that's being shared on the platform.

That's the problem.

Yes, that's correct.

It's paperwork.

So actually, if you had infinite trillions of dollars, you would win...

because you're on the right side.

But the thing is, there is a degree to which they suffocate you with paperwork.

That's the downside of bureaucracy, through paperwork, through process.

Yes.