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Ctrl-Alt-Speech

Mike Masnick & Ben Whitelaw

Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly news podcast co-created by Techdirt’s Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation’s Ben Whitelaw. Each episode looks at the latest news in online speech, covering issues regarding trust & safety, content moderation, regulation, court rulings, new services & technology, and more.The podcast regularly features expert guests with experience in the trust & safety/online speech worlds, discussing the ins and outs of the news that week and what it may mean for the

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19:23

Minisode: The Supreme Court's NetChoice Ruling

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2024/07/01

Although our hosts are both on vacation this week, we didn’t want to leave our listeners waiting too long for an update on today’s big news about online speech: the Supreme Court’s ruling in the NetChoice cases, which sends the Texas and Florida laws that would limit the ability of online platforms to moderate political speech back to the lower courts. So Mike Masnick has stepped briefly back to the microphone to join our producer, Leigh Beadon, for a quick mini episode of Ctrl-Alt-Speech, wh...

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55:39

A Lack of (Under)Standing

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2024/06/28

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:Supreme Court Sees Through The Nonsense, Rejects Lower Courts’ Rulings Regarding Social Media Moderation (Techdirt)How Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Failed Children on Safety, States Say (New York Times)New Features to Help Protect Our Community (Snap)Trends in Financial Sextortion (Thorn/NCMEC)Teens lean on AI for mental health support (Mercury News)I Paid $365.63 to Replace 4...

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52:44

This Podcast May be Hazardous to Moral Panics

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2024/06/21

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:Surgeon General: Why I’m Calling for a Warning Label on Social Media Platforms (New York Times)The Surgeon General Is Wrong. Social Media Doesn’t Need Warning Labels (The Daily Beast)Anthropic calls for AI red teaming to be standardized (Fortune)How small claims court became Meta's customer service hotline (Engadget)Pornhub to block five more states over age verification...

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49:21

Moderating Politics & Politicizing Moderation

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2024/06/14

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:Meta says it won’t support suit against major child safety law (Washington Post)Obstacles to Autonomy: Post-Roe Removal of Abortion Information Online (Amnesty International)Abortion Groups Say Tech Companies Suppress Posts and Accounts (NY Times)The Stanford Internet Observatory is being dismantled (Platformer)How Politics Broke Content Moderation (Columbia Journalism R...

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52:44

The Internet is (Still) for Porn, with Yoel Roth

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2024/06/07

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by guest host Yoel Roth, former head of trust & safety at Twitter and now head of trust & safety at Match Group. Together they cover:X tweaks rules to formally allow adult content (TechCrunch)Temu joins Shein in facing stricter regulation in the EU (The Verge)Facebook’s Taylor Swift Fan Pages Taken Over by Animal Abuse, Porn, and Scams (404 Media)Post-January 6th dep...

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53:04

Won't Someone Please Think of the Adults?

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2024/05/31

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:EU Explores Whether Telegram Falls Under Strict New Content Law (Bloomberg)Too Small to Police, Too Big to Ignore: Telegram Is the App Dividing Europe (Bloomberg) NIST Reports First Results From Age Estimation Software Evaluation (NIST) Supersharers of fake news on Twitter (Science) Digital town square? Nextdoor's offline contexts and online discourse (JQD...

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57:42

Deepfake It Till You Make It

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2024/05/24

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:Meta and Coinbase link up with Match to fight pig-butchering, romance scams (Fortune)Indian Voters Are Being Bombarded With Millions of Deepfakes. Political Candidates Approve (Wired)Meta says AI-generated election content is not happening at a “systemic level” (MIT Technology Review)How Bluesky is thinking about spam (Bluesky)French TikTok block in overseas territory se...

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48:11

Do You Really Want the Government in Your DMs?

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2024/05/17

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:Commission opens formal proceedings against Meta under the Digital Services Act related to the protection of minors on Facebook and Instagram (European Commission)Meta, TikTok, other platforms told to expect EU guidelines soon on child protection, age verification (MLex)Got a text that you think is a scam? S’pore’s new centre to fight online harms can help verify it (Str...

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51:20

Between a Rock and a Hard Policy

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2024/05/10

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership (Tom's Hardware)Tech firms must tame toxic algorithms to protect children online (Ofcom)Reddit Lays Out Content Policy While Seeking More Licensing Deals (Bloomberg)Extremist Militias Are Coordinating in More Than 100 Facebook Groups (Wired)Politicians Scapegoat Social Media While Ignoring Real S...

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64:28

This One Weird Trick to Save the Open Internet

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2024/05/03

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54:53

The Bell Tolls for TikTok

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2024/04/26

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52:40

The Difficulty of Being a Teen Online

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2024/04/19

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41:05

Watch Out, AI is Getting More Persuasive

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2024/04/12

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57:33

Are Platforms Ready for Elections?

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2024/04/05

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54:52

The Most Moderated Word on Meta

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2024/03/29

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58:41

Murthy, Reddit, and the Speech Deciders

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2024/03/22

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50:54

The Global Internet - Or Is It?

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2024/03/15

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3:53

Introducing Ctrl-Alt-Speech

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2024/03/05

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