Senator, I think that this is a really hard question, and I think it's one of the reasons
why we struggle with it.
There are certain definitions that we have around calling for violence or...
Let's just agree on that.
If somebody's calling for violence, that shouldn't be there.
I'm worried about the psychological categories around speech.
You used language of safety and protection earlier.
We see this happening on college campuses all across the country.
It's dangerous.
40% of Americans under age 35 tell pollsters they think the First Amendment is dangerous
because you might use your freedom to say something that hurts somebody else's feelings.
Guess what?
There are some really passionately held views about the abortion issue on this panel today.
Can you imagine a world where you might decide that pro-lifers are prohibited from speaking
about their abortion views on your platform?
I certainly would not want that to be the case.
But it might really be unsettling to people who've had an abortion to have an open debate
about that, wouldn't it?
It might be, but I don't think that that would fit any of the definitions of what we have.
But I do generally agree with the point that you're making, which is as we're able to technologically
shift towards especially having AI proactively look at content, I think that that's going
to create massive questions for society about what obligations we want to require companies
to fulfill.
And I do think that that's a question that we need to struggle with as a country because
I know other countries are, and they're putting laws in place.
And I think that America needs to figure out and create the set of principles that we want
American companies to operate under.
Thanks.
I wouldn't want you to leave here today and think there's sort of a unified view in the
Congress that you should be moving toward policing more and more and more speech.
I think violence has no place on your platform.
Sex traffickers and human traffickers have no place on your platform.
But vigorous debates, adults need to engage in vigorous debates.
I have only a little less than two minutes left, so I'm going to shift gears a little
bit.
Generation snowflake is a term used to characterize people who became adults in the 2010s as being
more prone to taking offense and less resilient than previous generations, or as being too
emotionally vulnerable to cope with views that challenge their own.
So it's this overly sensitive, offended by everything, can't be corrected kind of mentality
where we have to be really careful what we say around you.
We have to walk on eggshells so as not to offend or hurt your little feelings.
This is known as the snowflake generation.