Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Bullshit In A China Shop
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:
- TikTok Oral Arguments (Supreme Court)
- Biden administration looks for ways to keep TikTok available in the U.S. (NBC News)
- Trump considers executive order hoping to ‘save TikTok’ from ban or sale in U.S. law (Washington Post)
- TikTok Users Gleefully Embrace Even More Chinese App To Spite US TikTok Ban (Techdirt)
- Meta employees criticize Zuckerberg decisions to end fact-checking (CNBC)
- Meta moderators were already in Texas before Zuckerberg announced move, say ex-workers (The Guardian)
- Not Many Meta Employees Will Have to Move to Texas After All (Wired)
- Meta just flipped the switch that prevents misinformation from spreading in the United States (Platformer)
- Brazil expresses concern over Meta’s changes to content moderation (Al Jazeera)
- EU reassesses tech probes into Apple, Google and Meta (Financial Times)
- Despite DEI & content moderation reversals, advertisers won’t flee Meta (The Drum)
- Meta’s ‘free speech’ overhaul sparks advertisers’ concern (Financial Times)
- French Woman Says AI Brad Pitt Scammed Her Out of $850K (Hollywood Reporter)
- French TV show pulled after ridicule of woman who fell for AI Brad Pitt (The Guardian)
- Why This OnlyFans Model Posts Machine Learning Explainers to Pornhub (404 Media)
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This episode is brought to you with financial support from the Future of Online Trust & Safety Fund.
Filed Under: brazil, china, content moderation, donald trump, eu, mark zuckerberg, tiktok ban
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Comments on “Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Bullshit In A China Shop”
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You lost the election, MM
Elections have consequences. More didn’t want what you’re selling than wanted it.
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ok matt
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keep telling us how mad you are
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You seemed to argue differently in 2021 if I recall.
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What a pathetic loser.
Fucking look at yourself bro.
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I didn’t see Mike on the ballot. Are these delusions of your getting worse?
proof both sides want to kill section 230: https://bsky.app/profile/emptywheel.bsky.social/post/3lfwkxqv67k2a
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Blumenthal wants to repeal it too according to the thread
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are you gonna keep doomposting or what?
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I consider this to be credible since this person seems to have been observing congress for a long while.
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..Then again I suppose a lot of experts and observers have been wrong before, and it’s not exactly like they’re providing much evidence of the congress majority supporting the idea.
And, this is just me theorizing, but a repeal could maybe be shut down on account of the potential to burden peoples’ first amendment rights heavily.
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shut up doom poster
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You as well, backseat moderator.
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“You as well, backseat moderator.” ok misery bro
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At least put a bit more substance into your attempted clapbacks
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“At least put a bit more substance into your attempted clapbacks” you barely did
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shut up doom poster
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we would like it if you stop doom post spamming in every article about 230