Hi, James. Ben, how are you? I am doing okay. How are you? Doing well. It feels like summer's

truly come to San Francisco. The nights are getting longer. The weather's getting warmer. It's

nice to walk home from work. It makes it a pleasure to come back and then jump on the phone and

speak to you. Well, very good. You have what you have like a couple weeks of summer before winter

returns. Is that that that's how it works? Yes. And then we get another summer after winter's

finished. The weather around here is crazy sometimes. Well, speaking of weather, I thought right this

week about the weather around tech companies and around the world. That was a terrible segue,

but I tried. I was going to go like as quickly as the

seasons change in San Francisco. Oh, better, better. Wow. I feel like we should start

recording, so we just smooth that one in. But I want to keep it this way so I can retain my

amazement at how good that was. Very good. Pushing through bad segways. This week, it's

interesting. It was kind of a slow week generally

in tech that is going to change dramatically next week. There is both the Uber S-1 is coming out

and then also Disney's announcing their two streaming services. That's how it goes sometimes.

Like there's two huge things I want to write about. They're going to both happen the same day.

It's very annoying. But I want to take the time this week, really following on

on some of our discussion last week, you know, I mentioned in the podcast that I was maybe going to

write a weekly article about the YouTube stuff. And I didn't. I kind of, you know, I wrote a couple

daily updates about it in a part because there's things I wanted to say about it. Like in the

daily updates, I talked about the Section 230 stuff. I talked about the first amendment stuff. I talked about the idea of like sins of commission omission, those sorts of

things. But there are pieces, right? And kind of this week, thinking about over the weekend, the way I

sort of wanted to gel those thoughts together kind of came to me where, you know, this idea of regulation tech companies. And believe me, it's not a very popular and sexy topic.

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