Matthew Prince

You know, stopping some nerds with a C Corp in Palo Alto is not that's that's child's play.

You had the the LLM Labyrinth product.

We can do lots of things to make their lives very difficult.

And again, I don't think we need.

a congressional action to do it.

The one place where I do think that we might end up, and I'm hopeful that it doesn't come to this, where I think that there might be a place for some sort of legislative action is going back to Google.

Because again, Google is in this tough spot where they have sort of said that you have to make a choice.

Either you completely exclude all your content from search

Or we get to use it for AI, especially the AI overviews that they have.

And that gives them effectively an unfair advantage over every other AI company that's out there.

If we are able to get them to voluntarily give that away and split those two things apart, say search is different than AI.

then I think that that will actually unlock every other AI company being willing to pay for content.

Because now we can actually block Google from using it for AI versus otherwise.

So that's a place that there might be legislative action.

Again, I'm hopeful that Google will do the right thing and support the ecosystem before it comes to that.

We've also done things at Cloudflare, because again, one of the things you can do is you don't need legislation.

You can just have contract.

So we added a license.

that basically says that site owners have the right to say how their content is going to be used by robots and that they can opt into search without opting into AI.

And again, that's a contract, which if it's ignored, you know, we can go to court and we can see if it will be will be enforced.