Ctrl-Alt-Speech: The Comedy Of Errors
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:
- Facebook & Content Moderation (Last Week Tonight with John Oliver)
- Australia takes enforcement action against Telegram for serious delay in terror and child sexual abuse transparency (eSafety Commission)
- US judge says Trump Media, Rumble need not follow Brazilian order they deem censorship (Reuters)
- Why the Rumble Suit Against a Brazilian Justice is Not About Free Speech (Tech Policy Press)
- Underage Users at Meta, Snap Show Large Australian Breaches (Bloomberg)
- ‘Big Tech Censorship’ of Users Targeted by Trump’s FTC Chief (Bloomberg)
- Instagram ‘Error’ Turned Reels Into Neverending Scroll of Murder, Gore, and Violence (404 Media)
- Meta’s ‘free speech’ revamp divides oversight board (Financial Times)
- Microsoft Hosted Explicit Videos of This Startup Founder for Years. Here’s How She Got Them Taken Down (Wired)
This episode is brought to you with financial support from the Future of Online Trust & Safety Fund.
Filed Under: australia, content moderation, donald trump, ftc, ncii
Companies: facebook, meta, microsoft, rumble, snap, telegram
Comments on “Ctrl-Alt-Speech: The Comedy Of Errors”
Warning: The “eSafety Commissioner” has a history of behaving a lot like a politician.
The whole Rumble case feels like increasingly petty enforcement.