Matthew Prince

Because again, the world is going to be a much better place if there's less rage bait and if there's more actual content, which is local, unique, and actually filling in human knowledge.

There are no markets without some level of scarcity.

there has to be scarcity in order for, we don't have a market for like breathable air, you know, unless you're underwater because there's plenty of it.

And there is a market for when you're underwater because there's not plenty of it.

And that's the only time that you have markets is there has to be some level of scarcity.

And so step one, no matter what,

the business model ends up being.

But step one has to be the people who are content creators say enough is enough.

We're not going to let you take our content without you compensating it for us.

And the crazy stat is that in the next few years, the amount of machine traffic on the web will far exceed

the amount of human traffic on the web.

And there's a real cost to that.

Like our customers have to pay CloudFlare in order to do that.

You've got to pay AWS in order to serve that traffic.

If content creators are not only getting no value, but also like having to pay more to service these machines, like just,

Just brass tacks.

That's not fair.

Someone who is actually benefiting from this should be paying the costs of both creating the content, but then also serving that content back out.

And that increasingly is going to be these AI companies that are getting the benefit back to it.

What I think is important is that the answer should not be, you know, that Cloudflare or any single entity determines what is good and what is bad online.