Ctrl-Alt-Speech: This Podcast May Be Hazardous To Moral Panics
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:
- 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 laws (The Verge)
- New York Outlaws ‘Addictive’ Social Media Feeds For Teen Users (PC Mag)
- Meta Oversight Board’s Helle Thorning-Schmidt: ‘Not all AI-generated content is harmful’ (Financial Times)
This episode is brought to you with financial support from the Future of Online Trust & Safety Fund.
Filed Under: ai, artificial intelligence, new york, oversight board, social media, surgeon general, vivek murthy
Companies: anthropic, meta, pornhub


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Privileged white men.
Speech is inherently harmful. Hate speech kills minorities. But of course you privileged white men don’t experience that.