Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Do You Really Want The Government In Your DMs?
from the ctrl-alt-speech dept
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 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 (Straits Times)
- Bipartisan Bill To Repeal Section 230 Defended In Facts-Optional Op-Ed (Techdirt)
- Indian journalists turned to YouTube to dodge Modi’s censorship. Some of their channels are now being blocked (Reuters Institute for Journalism)
- She was accused of faking an incriminating video of teenage cheerleaders. She was arrested, outcast and condemned. The problem? Nothing was fake after all (The Guardian)
- Commission services sign administrative arrangement with Ofcom to support the enforcement of social media regulations (Pub Affairs Bruxelles)
- Singapore’s proposed online safety laws look like more censorship in disguise (Rest of World)
This episode is brought to you with financial support from the Future of Online Trust & Safety Fund.
Filed Under: content moderation, deepfakes, digital services act, eu, india, ofcom, section 230, singapore
Companies: facebook, instagram, meta, tiktok, youtube
Comments on “Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Do You Really Want The Government In Your DMs?”
great more anxiety inducing
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guys we might need to dox ourselves if we want to use the internet great
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Not gonna lie, that story of the deepfake that wasn’t is genuinely pretty fucked up.
All you need is some vested interests, looking like you’re going up against the most popular people in school, and all of a sudden you’ve got everyone scrambling to get a chance to kick your ass.
Stoked on the podcast!
Thanks to these posts I’ve discovered the podcast & am slowly working my way through them to the present.
(Mike, we met in person around 10 years back when I ran Alternative Tentacles Records & you asked me to appear at a roundtable about the state of digital music back then)
Anyway, carry on- your writing & podcast are a treat and never boring!
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am anxious about this eu doing age id
Every online “safety” law is a censorship law is disguise. In fact, it’s barely even a disguise.