Europe

“The problem is that I think it's a very hard argument for us to make doing that and then defending our internet platforms everywhere else, right? Because the second we do that, Europe is going to say very rightfully, do we really want the American internet pla…”

“A lot of the real story of GDPR, the real story of a lot of this stuff is, you know, Europe trying to get protectionists around, you know, internet access and the flow of bits.”

“I wrote a thing about how, like, Europe just probably can't have nice things anymore if they're going to keep making up these ridiculous internet laws, because, like, they've had the benefit for the last many years of effectively riding on American internet se…”

“It's definitely not Europe.”

“Europe's largely killing the internet right now.”

“We've had requests from all over the planet to come run etiquette schools in various cities. Like literally, we have Asian, we have an Asian request. We have a Middle East request. We have several in Europe.”

“And I do believe that the Sahel in Africa and the Maghreb, which is, you know, Mali, Sudan, Niger, Burkina Faso, you are one terror event away projected into Europe that that entire region becomes the west next to Afghanistan, all of which culminates in my con…”

“I think that Europe is fucked, and there are bright lights of amazing entrepreneurs that are doing the very thing that Europe has historically not done, which is risk taking. The floor for Europe is higher than the US, so people do not fall through that, but t…”