Is This Really What We Should Be Doing Good Here?

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Facebook has created an iddictive product. It's addictive in the same way i think of tobacco or sugar, but for the mind. People are responsible for their own actions, but they're being radicalized. They're being driven to atrocities like the ones that we've witnessed. I mentioned this week ind the daily up date. If i do write this weekly article, i'm sure i'll mention it again. But it was called friction. The key thing abouthe ernei, at the very very very basis of all this is 'friction'

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/)