What you're basically telling everyone is: You can go over there and talk about Jigglypuff, and go over here and spew your racist, hateful crap. And it normalizes the latter.
There are plenty of places on the internet to go find that stuff. Just not at our Javits Center, so to speak.
The other thing that real life does really nicely, if we keep pushing this analogy, is if you show up in the Pokémon Con and you start spewing really crazy stuff, you get a response from the people around you. At minimum, it's like, bro, that's fucking weird. We don't wanna see that.
We can actually do near-real-time reading of a comment. Let's say you are showing up in the Pokémon community, and this Pokémon community has guidelines that the community has all agreed on.
We've empowered users to say there's content that I just don't want to see. I come into this community for good vibes.
The feedback you can then give to the person who's about to hit Submit is, Hey, just so you know, 10 percent of the community is actually going to see this post because of how inflammatory is. You can still post it, but just so you know. That helps you create this feedback loop that happens all the time in real life.
We actually think that's a feature of civil society. And so if we can bring some part of that online, it improves user experience for everybody.
We like to end with a little game. It's called Control-Alt-Delete. What piece of tech would you love to control? What would you alt, so alter or change? And what would you vanquish from the earth never to be seen or heard from again?
This is a little silly. Can I control Apple to finally help their software? Apple Intelligence, all this stuff's just been so bad.
You go help them out.
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