Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Presidents & Precedents
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:
- Pennsylvania Becomes Hot Spot for Election Disinformation (NY Times)
- After Trump Took the Lead, Election Deniers Went Suddenly Silent (NY Times)
- X Is a White-Supremacist Site (The Atlantic)
- Papers, Please? The Republican Plan to Wall Off the Internet (Tech Policy Press)
- What Trump’s Victory Means for Internet Policy (CNET)
- The government plans to ban under-16s from social media platforms. Here’s what we know so far (ABC Australia)
- Canada orders shutdown of TikTok’s Canadian business, app access to continue (Reuters)
This episode is brought to you with financial support from the Future of Online Trust & Safety Fund.
Filed Under: australia, canada, content moderation, donald trump, social media
Companies: tiktok, twitter, x


Comments on “Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Presidents & Precedents”
I think I’m going to have to pick up Noah Yuval Harari’s works that Ben talked about. I strongly believe that we are in that trough. There’s something that catches in my head when Mike says “before society wraps its head around it” and talks about it further, where Mike feels like he’s got the tone that he’s got it all figured out in that it’s complex and we need to take time, and everyone else needs to get with the program.