Ctrl-Alt-Speech: World Wide Wedge Issue
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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:
- Zuckerberg Tries to Enlist Trump in Fight Against Meta EU Ruling (WSJ)
- EU set to limit Apple and Meta fines to avoid ire of Donald Trump (Financial Times)
- Adolescence hard to watch as a dad, Starmer tells creators (BBC)
- ‘Adolescence’ on Netflix: A painful wake-up call about unregulated internet use for teens (The Conversation)
- Adolescence hits Netflix’s Top 10 Global chart in just three weeks as it reaches over 96MILLION views (Daily Mail)
- Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral (NY Times)
- ESPN’s Pat McAfee and others amplified a false rumor. A teenager’s life was ‘destroyed’ (NY Times)
- Myanmar’s Internet Censorship Limits Information About Quake (NY Times)
This episode is brought to you with financial support from the Future of Online Trust & Safety Fund, and by our sponsor Internet Society, a global nonprofit that advocates for an open, globally connected, secure and trustworthy Internet for everyone. In our Bonus Chat, Internet Society’s Natalie Campbell talks about issues around US leadership on digital trade and an open internet, related to a letter the Internet Society sent this week to the US Trade Representative.
Filed Under: adolescence, content moderation, dma, dsa, eu, mark zuckerberg, myanmar
Companies: apple, espn, meta
Comments on “Ctrl-Alt-Speech: World Wide Wedge Issue”
That ESPN story.
So much wrong with that. The obvious one is amplifying false rumors that sends a teen girl into hiding.
But there is also the hideous misogyny in the USA, that even if this were true, why are people persecuting the child, and not the middle aged man that supposedly slept with her??
USA has one seriously sick culture right now.
I have a strong feeling Adolescences success will, rather than fuel actual helpful regulations and solutions, be used to further the interests of ID-gating companies and the repeal of section 230 and other similair legislations worldwide.
In other words: Want this to lead to good things, pessimistically assume it’ll push the internet off the edge and end it for good.