Face is often that there are we have to look at these problems not only from the question of, heres a new service, such as maybe being used by initially by a small slays of the population that has certain selfregulating characteristics to it. When you think about a Regulatory Regime that will apply not only to what exists today but with what comes after it. How these individual services revolve, what new services are created in the same space. So theyre there needs to be an openedminedness on the part of local governments and also a measure of caution that says what works for Transportation Company x may actually turn out to not be sufficiently protective of the Public Interests when it comes to Transportation Company y that starts up next week. So, i think thats the balance we have but we certainly found that most of the companies in the space have been very open to working with us at the local level and its a dialogue that the city of austin at least is very open to having. Adam cono
Is the case that the spread has Community Standards his and into to chairman what can receive it on the site. We do have strict those that have a seafood content we call direct harm purpose of the is directly inciting violence that is precluded. What i hear you say is if it does not meet the standards it is not that it gets pushed down is just . It violates Community Standards to incite violence then it will be precluded from being on our side to reinforce that that in most instances we do not go out to police that we wait for one of our users to report. You would not use that the algorithm only block it or not. Yes. Got it. And now you talk about a worldwide phenomenon. We are a Global Service and we have to abide by the laws in which we operate. In addition to Community Standards basically we will respond to demands from government if they conform to the laws of that country. We will not typically take something off of the sites but we may blot kit in the jurisdiction of the area. No
Ratings. The Approval Ratings that persist through a majority and a republican majority, those are different ideologies. It is a process rejection. I think that is an important issue for our country and programs like this and others. I think the United Kingdom has done exciting work while they modernize legislative activity. Think it is a challenge for our community. At a certain point, how can you regulate uber if you live in a motorcade . At a certain point we need our legislative institutions and executive leaders to be connected with the reality of our society. It is, with the rise of television, the rise of radio, i think we will get there. I think that the issue of relation regulation, through the existence of technology in the decades, it is unique. It protects the disruption of itself. You see a regulatory response, as a weapon to protect itself. The Industry Needs to keep the public on its side, because without that it will never be able to defeat those static interest. Think
Tells them that someone is in the rim and that is more efficient. If you look at it over uber, this is taking capital that was being underutilized and employing it in a more productive way. Anyway you have capital that is underutilized, anywhere that there is a large labor of whole that is not using capital these are areas that will be disrupted in the next 10 years. The second question, i do not have any signs or evidence for this, but i have toys been very optimistic about the likely impact of future technology. The way i try to think about it, there are two possible outcomes. If you put this in star trek terms, you have the United Federation of planets where everybody cooperates and everyone has the ability to achieve personal enlightenment and personal best or you have the board, where everybody is nobody. It is one giant collective. These are two very different futures that come from the same set of technologies. I have boys imagined it would be like the federation and less like t
The board is also considering replacing bill gates as chairman, possibly with John Thompson. He was the former ceo of symantec will stop this is according to people have been briefed on the process and how it has been going. Bloomberg told vision did it catch up with him after the web conference in paris and ask him about the ceo search. The microsoft board is working on the process. Steve ballmer is the ceo and im actively engaged in running the enterprise group. [inaudible] i said everything im going to say about that topic. We have Jon Erlichman from l. A. He helped to break this story. I will start with you. How close is the board to naming him and how did they come to this decision . We are pretty far along in this process and what a process it has been. This is something that began and we were notified last year in august that steve ulmer would be stepping down within 12 months. We thought there might be a decision by the end of the year and that didnt happen. The hope was to hav