The Constraint in the Value Chain

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There's a fundamental transformation going on in the way people spend their time. Being bigger is better for advertising, being the weater is superimportant. And i don't want to diminish dislike the increased data that comes from more engagement. But it gets better for users overtime. The more people use it, we have the increase. It never stops a sort of increasing ynd.

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/)