Dave Baszucki: evaluation

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…Will the public and also policymakers ever be happy enough with something that de facto becomes an everything app? When I was a kid, of course, there was no online life. People would go to parks. A lot would happen in parks. Mostly good things, but occasionally some bad things. People back then did not really think to blame the park, per se. They would blame the wrongdoers. Now it seems we have this world where there are companies. They’re easily identifiable. Arguably, on net, they provide a lot more positive than negative, but they’re always a target because they’re an everything app, and in every everything app, some bad things are going to happen. How does an everything app survive that? I think you’re touching on a whole range of things. I think one thing you’re touching on is the expectation in many ways that technology and digital platforms go to their own standard in a way. In self-driving vehicles, even when a self-driving vehicle is 10 or 20 times statistically fewer crashes per mile, it’s still very much under the scrutiny of the public radar. Even if commercial airline transport is X times safer than driving in a car per mile, it can be under public scrutiny. I’m optimistic that, for us, the public scrutiny we get is really integrated in our vision for the platform, which is we’ve said we want to set the world global standard for healthy, safe, age-appropriate digital engagement. We think that’s really good for business, actually. We’re unique amongst many apps in having people under 13 on the platform and saying we have under 13. Most apps out there are labeled as 13+, but I think most people know there are a lot of nine, 10, 11, 12-year-olds on most apps that are 13+. For us, it’s been a huge benefit. It’s allowed us to lean, literally since we started, into all of the innovations that started with world-class filtering, started with never sharing images, have evolved to AI-based age check, have evolved to segmenting communication. Now that we have all of this working together, even evolved to how we select content for different ages, I would say there’s a different digital standard. At the same time, it’s something we don’t shirk away from. We welcome the introspection because that’s our commitment and really our responsibility for the platform. Right now, you can only message across fairly narrow age groups. A 12-year-old can message a 13-year-old, but not, say, message a 19-year-old. Do I understand that properly?…

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