The Psychology of Free Speech and Censorship

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A platform that allows people to fall in love with each other is also by nature going to be a platform that allowing people to hurt each other. When you're managing such a platform, it's difficult. I don't think pressure from advertisers or politicians directly in any way affects how we think about this. We've had these community standards from early on and there are about 20 different kinds of harm that we track and try to fight actively.

Mark Zuckerberg is CEO of Meta, formerly Facebook.

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(00:00) – Introduction
(11:29) – Metaverse
(31:06) – Identity in Metaverse
(43:15) – Security
(47:40) – Social Dilemma
(1:09:46) – Instagram whistleblower
(1:14:31) – Social media and mental health
(1:19:56) – Censorship
(1:37:05) – Translation
(1:44:40) – Advice for young people
(1:50:28) – Daughters
(1:53:16) – Mortality
(1:57:49) – Question for God
(2:00:55) – Meaning of life