Should We Be Thinking About This From a Government Perspective?

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If we ever to the regulation stage, that's probably what it is. It makes me think of, speaking of the apple event, one of the surprising things was that the wallstret journal decided to take part. Despite the fact everything's there, there's a ton of friction to get everything. You see that what they did is theyre using friction to their advantage,. Like you're not going to read the paper that way, you know? Hat i mean, if it was on there without that limitation, were yould just go there, then why my paying forty dollars a month, what ever, i cou just pay apple news and go and read everything there. The thing for

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/)