Neal Mohan

existed back then are non-existent today.

And it's my way of answering your question of like, well, is it a temporal thing or not?

I would argue that a lot of these sort of like, and by the way, YouTube in particular was criticized to an extreme amount because of all the content that we left up on the platform around, you know, the Wuhan virus controversy around like, you know, whatever.

all sorts of other things that we were leaving up that other places were acting differently on.

And so we got beat up a lot sort of from one side of the spectrum then.

And I think that our approach really just has to be

flexible to the environment in the context of it i think we're always going to get criticized by being an open platform there's a lot of magic that happens because of the open platform all these amazing creators wouldn't exist if we didn't have an open platform and we didn't stand for for free speech but there's also a lot of i mean yeah hold on i just want to follow up on this if i may there are two categories that i am i have in my feed because of the algorithm firearms and uh poker but

A lot of them are incredibly successful creators on our platform, Jason.

No.

So many of them are monetized as well.

So we do have a clear set of rules and we've had these for a long time in terms of sales of firearms and those types of things.

And obviously there's legal frameworks and all those types of things around it.

But I think, you know, in terms of

firearms community and learning about firearms and safety, which obviously is an important thing, especially for young people.

We're one of the largest places where those audiences exist, as well as monetization of that type of content.

Now the balance, obviously, and some of this comes from experts that we've worked with in that vertical itself around

something might be appropriate for an adult user of that type of content that may not be appropriate for a child and those types of things.

So there's a lot of nuance behind it.

But the poker, I don't, I mean, there's probably something around gambling legality and all that sort of stuff.

But generally speaking, as you guys know, there's an enormous amount of poker content that's incredibly successful in our platform.