Ctrl-Alt-Speech: New Blocks On The Kids
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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:
- It’s Cool to Have No Followers Now (New Yorker)
- Introducing Safe for Work? — all about T&S jobs (Everything in Moderation*)
- Kids Turn Podcast Comments Into Secret Chat Rooms, Because Of Course They Do (Techdirt)
- Reddit and Kick added to child social media ban (ABC News)
- X boss explains why ‘horrific’ video viewed by Axel Rudakubana wasn’t removed (The Independent)
- Southport Inquiry (YouTube)
- How Elon Musk is Boosting The British Right (Sky News)
- arXiv Changes Rules After Getting Spammed With AI-Generated ‘Research’ Papers (404 Media)
- TikTok Investigated in France Over Content That Promotes Suicide (Bloomberg)
- France Moves to Block the Shein Website Over a Sex Doll Scandal (New York Times)
- EU leaders paper over splits on US tech reliance (Politico)
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Filed Under: arxiv, australia, content moderation, elon musk, southport inquiry
Companies: kick, reddit, shein, tiktok, twitter, x
Comments on “Ctrl-Alt-Speech: New Blocks On The Kids”
The case with Shein feels very strange. France went on about the dolls, then went on about knives. Both a few pieces of third party content. But, only after politicians complained about it being “fast fashion” and for being “provocative” enough to open a store in Paris for first party goods.