Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Murthy, Reddit, and the Speech Deciders

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Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw.

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In this week’s online speech, content moderation and internet regulation round-up, Mike and Ben cover: 

  • Supreme Court Seems Skeptical Of The Claims That The Federal Government Coerced Social Media To Moderate (Techdirt
  • Reddit’s I.P.O. Is a Content Moderation Success Story (New York Times
  • Elon Musk’s X Is Suspending Accounts That Reveal a Neo-Nazi Cartoonist’s Alleged Identity (Wired
  • The Risks of Internet Regulation (Foreign Affairs
  • EU to impose election safeguards on Big Tech (Financial Times
  • Canada’s Online Harms Act is revealing itself to be staggeringly reckless (Globe and Mail)

The episode is brought to you with financial support from the Future of Online Trust & Safety Fund, and by our sponsor Block Party, which builds privacy and anti-harassment tools to increase user control, protection, and safety. In our Bonus Chat at the end of the episode, Block Party founder and CEO Tracy Chou discusses the impact of harassment on self-censorship and explains how she is making navigating privacy and safety settings on major platforms easier for users through her tool, Privacy Party. 

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Anonymous Coward says:

The issue I have with this NYT article commending Reddit for content moderation is how they have left r/KotakuInAction, a GamerGate harassment subreddit, up for a decade. It’s still available now, from what I recall. They also left r/the_donald up for the longest time, allowing the users to keep organizing until they built out their own website. By the time Reddit shut down r/the_donald, its users had moved on and the place became a ghost town.

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Because they’ve done nothing wrong. The KiA members have some terrible opinions but that doesn’t mean censor them unless you want the problem to get worse. Go and censor KiA (even more because they’ve been forced to ban certain topics and words multiple times), now they feel victimized and go even deeper into supporting donald trump.

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andrea iravani says:

You have to understand where these people are coming from to understand them. Elon Musk is coming from South Africa Apartheid, and Europeans are coming from Europe. European British and Germans have never accepted America’s independence. Identity Evropa is a European white identity psy-op on Americans. The name was later changed to AIM American Identity Movement, but it is a Eurooean bankers and government movement. Anyone that wants to leave NATO, including me, will be targeted by them. NATO countries are extorting money from the Pentagon and Federal government, because since 1993, Eurooean banks and other banks of foreign countries were permitted to become Federal Reserve member banks that are receiving bailout money from American tax payers, NATO wants to make sure that Russia and the U.S. are enemies, because if they are nit enemies, it ends the justification for NATO countries receiving U.S. federal tax dollars from the Pentagon. Europeans are incapable of self-defense. This is a proven fact. They are certainly incapable of defending America, and they have no inkling to. They announced that they created the EU and Euro to compete against America and the dollar. They want to destroy America, and have British spies working in this country like Professor Peter Simpson, a professor that teaches philosophy at a university, and teaches that he opposes the constitution. If the British are concerned about election misinformation, why isn’t MI6 Christopher Steele in prison for writing the fictious Steele Dossier? The British have no objection to imprisoning people for journalism. They imprisoned Julian Assange and Craig Murray for it. The British are Royal Pains in the Ass that America would be better off without.

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Fuck the EU was the most intelligent thing that Victoria Nuland ever said. The EU is just a God damned fucking albotross around Americans and the Europeans neck. Stupid Europeans conned into paying off Germany’s debt by creating the Euro and ceding their ntional soveregnty over to Germany to dictate decisions to them that have the explicit and sole intention of destroying their countries from within, like they have done to America too. God damned fucking Germans! Why in the hell would the Europeans fall for that crap from the Germans?! They truly belive that they are the master race, despitethe evidence disproving that since they are back to back world war losers.

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andrea iravani says:

Elon Musk and Zero Hedge are obviously foreigners that do not understand American culture. It is their tone and their lack of being able to intelligently express what it is that they are trying to say, as an example, Musk repeatedly spews out these hostile femarks but does not clarfify what it is that he is opposing and why it is that he opposes it, and will just tweet something like, beware the woke mind virus, which could mean a wide variety of different things, to a wide variety of different people. Zero Hedge does the same thing, and so does Unz writers and Burning Platform writers. I am not sure why it is that the Americans on Unz and Burning Pkatform are taking their lead.

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Another example is Milo Yiannopolous, who is also a foreigner and gay far right activist, that most of them supported, and backed, now they are all extremely and openly hostile to lgbtq.

Apparently, they just want a society of white men.There will be no need for any women, because Elon Musk is working on creating artificial wombs. They are misogynists.

There are almost no female writers at all on Unz website, because they are misogynists.

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