Neal Mohan

First of all, I think all of these platforms are actually pretty different, right?

Like what Twitter does is different than what some of the meta platforms do, which of course is very different than what YouTube does.

And you could argue, as witnessed from the rest of this conversation, that we probably have a lot more similarity with

you know, a streaming platform than we do with a social media platform.

So that's one point, but I think it's an important context into what I'm about to say.

And the reason I say that is because, you know, 99% of what happens on YouTube is all the creators that I talked about, all the podcasters, you know, the Taylor Swifts of the world, all the music, obviously.

Music is our largest and, you know, most important vertical, for example.

We're a music platform.

So that is, like...

even during COVID, that is where a lot of the watch time on YouTube versus a discourse that might be happening in a social feed somewhere.

That doesn't mean that we don't have comments on our videos and all that sort of piece, which is where some of this, you know, discourse that you're alluding to, David, might have happened.

I do think, yeah, so I think that at the highest level, I do think that there is something about the fact that that was a very different time.

I remember kind of March, April of 2020 where, like,

oh, my God, like, do you get this this way or is it this way or mask or this?

I mean, I literally woke up one day and there were, like, people climbing 5G cell towers and falling from cell towers because now it was like you could literally get the thing from cell towers.

But it sounds crazy today, but that was the nature of sort of the types of things that were popping up.

Let me just finish.

So that's the context in which we were having to sort of make some of these decisions.

Fast forward to today, like obviously in a completely different world, but just in terms of the nature of the disease and all that sort of a thing.

So all of those sort of policies that...