Naval, like most VC investors, think too highly of themselves and go on twitter tirades in areas where they have absolutely no clue what they are talking about.

Naval, like most VC investors, think too highly of themselves and go on twitter tirades in areas where they have absolutely no clue what they are talking about. The quote above is a real example. Their views are tinged by living in advance Western societies, and in their libertarian bubbles. In real life, a platform like Google and Facebook, that has unprecedented reach globally, is the opposite of a private phone call. ISIS rode YouTube's lax enforcement policy to create a Caliphate and slaughter millions of people. Was Naval advocating Google to wait for an order from the Syrian government before taking out beheading videos ? In India, WhatsApp is used by religious extremists to form lynching mobs, resulting in deaths of multiple people just based on rumors. We are living in a world, where we have software platforms that hold unprecedented leverage to alter people's lives. We should try to move away from some one size fits all simplistic policies that are created in Sand Hill road thought bubble