The Lack of Friction Makes Everything Easier

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For chan and h chan forums create these maims and battle testing them inside. They are that much more alluring to minds that otherwise wouldn't have gotten that good. It's almost like the hurd humanitything all over again. And frank wit, the on mans will be terrible things. But in our zeal to reduce friction we ought not lose sight of the potential bad. The lack of friction makes both the good things easier and it makes the bad things easier.

Ben and James discuss the question of YouTube, why it’s similar and different from Facebook, and why engagement is both alluring and a potential problem.

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YouTube Executives Ignored Warnings, Letting Toxic Videos Run Rampant — Bloomberg
Ben Thompson: Apple’s Services Event — Stratechery
Ben Thompson: Mark Zuckerberg’s Proposal, The Copyright Directive and Sunk Costs — Stratechery Daily Update
Ben Thompson: YouTube and Toxic Videos, YouTube’s Problematic Incentives, Sins of Omission and Commission — Stratechery Daily Update
Ben Thompson: Friction — Stratechery
Ben Thompson: The Pollyannish Assumption — Stratechery
Ben Thompson: The Wall Street Journal and Apple News, The Problem with Regulating Content](https://stratechery.com/2019/the-wall-street-journal-and-apple-news-the-problem-with-regulating-content-australias-terrible-new-law/)