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Last week, i couldn't do it. I had too much going on. The obvious topic last week was going to be apple. And really nothing about that excited me so much where i was like, oh my god, we must get on the mike and start recording. But maybe that's a topic for another day. Bcause i think there's something else we should talk about to day. Will put links to all these in the show notes.

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/)