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#383 β Mark Zuckerberg: Future of AI at Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp
that they don't want something on the service.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#383 β Mark Zuckerberg: Future of AI at Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp
And I think we have a bunch of principles around how we deal with that.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#383 β Mark Zuckerberg: Future of AI at Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp
Because on the one hand, if there's a democratically elected government and people around the world just have different values and different places, then should we as a California-based company
Lex Fridman Podcast
#383 β Mark Zuckerberg: Future of AI at Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp
tell them that something that they have decided is unacceptable actually like
Lex Fridman Podcast
#383 β Mark Zuckerberg: Future of AI at Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp
that we need to be able to, to, to, to express that.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#383 β Mark Zuckerberg: Future of AI at Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp
I mean, I think that that's, there's a certain amount of, of hubris in that.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#383 β Mark Zuckerberg: Future of AI at Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp
But then I think that there are other cases where, you know, it's, it's like a little more autocratic and, you know, you have the dictator leader who's just trying to crack down on dissent and, you know, the people in a country are really not aligned with that.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#383 β Mark Zuckerberg: Future of AI at Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp
And it's not necessarily against their culture, but it's,
Lex Fridman Podcast
#383 β Mark Zuckerberg: Future of AI at Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp
Um, but the, the, the person who's, who's leading it is, is just trying to push in a certain direction.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#383 β Mark Zuckerberg: Future of AI at Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp
Um, these are very complex questions.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#383 β Mark Zuckerberg: Future of AI at Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp
Uh, but I, I think, so it's, it's difficult to have, have a one size fits all, um, approach to it.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#383 β Mark Zuckerberg: Future of AI at Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp
But in general, we're, we're pretty active in, in kind of advocating and pushing back on, on, um, requests to take things down.
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#383 β Mark Zuckerberg: Future of AI at Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp
Um,
Lex Fridman Podcast
#383 β Mark Zuckerberg: Future of AI at Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp
But honestly, I think a request to censor things is one thing, and that's obviously bad.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#383 β Mark Zuckerberg: Future of AI at Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp
But where we draw a much harder line is on requests for access to information.
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#383 β Mark Zuckerberg: Future of AI at Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp
Because if you get told that you can't say something, that's bad.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#383 β Mark Zuckerberg: Future of AI at Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp
Obviously, it violates your...
Lex Fridman Podcast
#383 β Mark Zuckerberg: Future of AI at Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp
sense and freedom of expression at some level, but a government getting access to data in a way that
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#383 β Mark Zuckerberg: Future of AI at Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp
seems like it would be unlawful in our country, exposes people to real physical harm.
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#383 β Mark Zuckerberg: Future of AI at Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp
And that's something that in general we take very seriously.