Patrick McKenzie

Making systems that work is the job.

We have a few existence proofs.

We should increase our engagement with government on, you know, like, hey, state capacity, we can help you build some of that stuff.

Also, you know, Constitution of the United States is a document.

We feel like kind of attached to that document.

We understand, like...

Again, incentives rule everything around us.

Tech industry was in early 2021 very concerned about being told in no uncertain way by people in power, if you embarrass us, we'll end you.

And the one thing in the judicial record of this case is that the White House and other government actors routinely overreached and asked the tech companies, we would like you to censor us.

this and this and this and this.

And the tech company said no in a bunch of cases.

And so like continuing to negotiate for the right outcome rather than the one that people in power merely want is important.

there are some things that will feel unfortunate and maybe a little bit outside of the, like our true sweet spot of what we would want to be doing on Tuesday in the tech industry, where like, maybe we have to ratchet up the amount of public policy advocacy that we do.

Lobbying is a dirty word in the tech industry.

It probably shouldn't be.

Maybe we, you know, not just lobbying, but like,

when the do not embarrass us order came down and people were getting very quiet about the fact of feeling constrained by this.

Maybe we should have spoken out more and spoken more boldly about it.

Maybe when it was like the routine case that the White House was telling Facebook, Twitter, et cetera, et cetera, everyone knows the names.

companies like on a tweet by tweet communication by communication basis and also with regards to broad rules that affected the entire of the citizenry of the United States and residents of the United States and also everyone else in the world because these are the operating systems of the world like giving direct orders on there's a certain kind of free speech rather there's a certain kind of speech act which we find vexatious and we would like you to stop that everywhere like