Simon Adler

And so given all these changes you've just mentioned, like, what is the metaphor now?

I have one based on what you've said, but I'm curious what yours is.

Well, to me, it's now or certainly the direction things seem headed based on what you've said is that it's now just it's just broadcast again.

Yeah.

And with broadcast, there is no free speech, right?

No.

Like ABC, NBC, they can cancel a show at any time.

They get to decide exactly what the evening lineup is.

But with this, with social media, it's like a broadcast camouflaged as an organically generated thing.

Yeah, I'm not for and have never been for the federal government coming in and molding Facebook's content moderation policy.

Of course not.

But if something no longer resembles a public square at all and instead has become...

To keep reusing my label like a camouflaged broadcasting network where it's like, yeah, these are individuals saying something that they believe in.

But then that is being collated, amassed and pushed out as a opinion changing product by someone on high.

I am OK at that point with there being some sort of regulation.

It's not regulating maybe what people are allowed to post, but maybe how it's being aggregated.

I don't know.

There have to be some clever, somebody smarter than me who could come up with these sorts of rules.

You know, I think one of the reasons you and I have gotten along so well over the years and have worked so well together in this now trilogy of stories is that we both had sort of an unorthodox approach to this.

I mean, most people were saying that these Facebook guys were idiots, that they're bad, that they're causing lots of trouble, that we should just, like, cast scorn upon them.