Your Speech, Their Rules: People Who Guard the Internet

We discussed whether these ads were providing value to users — bear in mind that there were people who needed these cash loans to pay for food or rent for the week… We realized some types of loans were better than others, so for a while we tried to enforce what we thought was a reasonable loan interest rate and made sure that each payday loan company had a brick-and-mortar location (to avoid scammy fronts). Rob: People are quick to dismiss our policies and decisions as a product of a bunch of college students sitting around in flip-flops and not really thinking about the impact of this stuff, which could not be further from the truth. Rob: [Early on at Facebook] I felt like this is a lot of power, but I also felt like we had really smart people on our team.

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