Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Moderating Politics & Politicizing Moderation
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:
- 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 Review)
- Propagandists are using AI too—and companies need to be open about it (MIT Tech Review)
- The rise and fall of Koo, India’s once-thriving Twitter alternative (Rest of World)
- An Anonymous-Messaging App Upended This High School (WSJ)
This episode is brought to you with financial support from the Future of Online Trust & Safety Fund.
Filed Under: ai, artificial intelligence, child safety, content moderation, india, propaganda, roe v wade, stanford internet observatory
Companies: fizz, koo, meta
Comments on “Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Moderating Politics & Politicizing Moderation”
If the Maryland law is a proper privacy law, then I might think, well, that might be alright (that might chill poor privacy practices). If it chills free expression though, then that is troublesome.
With SIO, it doesn’t feel as if they ever escaped the trappings of the founder who was a Facebook executive. They approach everything from the perspective of how Facebook might do things, and accordingly, it is hostile to companies which are not Facebook.
I am listening to the segment on NetChoice currently. I have also looked at and read their recent articles on their website. The articles on NetChoice’s website, even the most recent ones, are heavily Republican. Regardless of how independent NetChoice is, their aims still align very much so with corporations such as Meta. The articles on NetChoice about antitrust are very right-wing and anti-consumer. Their writing about Biden and what he does is very right-wing and it bothers me a lot that you say that the organization is “really good”.