What's the Point of Distribution? Maccee Arterris

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The last time we did talk about you two was two and haf years ago, whand i wrote this piece that i think as held up pretty well. Is called the polyanis assumption. The pollyanis assumption was this idea that the executives of these companies are so sort of inculcated in the we're changing the world, and sort of the inherent rightness of what they do. We've sertonly toud the cotess of face bk as well,. This sort of messionic sort of complex is at issue here. It's not fun to be the guys thinking about the unintended consequences. But just because you don't want to think about the tended

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/)