Although our hosts are both on vacation this week, we didn’t want to leave our listeners waiting too long for an update on today’s big news about online speech: the Supreme Court’s ruling in the NetChoice cases, which sends the Texas and Florid

A Lack of (Under)Standing

10 days ago 55m 39s

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:Supreme Court Sees Through The Nonsense, Rejects Lower Courts’ Rulings Regarding Social Media Moderation (Techdirt)How M

This Podcast May be Hazardous to Moral Panics

17 days ago 52m 44s

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:Surgeon General: Why I’m Calling for a Warning Label on Social Media Platforms (New York Times)The Surgeon General Is Wr

Moderating Politics & Politicizing Moderation

24 days ago 49m 21s

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:Meta says it won’t support suit against major child safety law (Washington Post)Obstacles to Autonomy: Post-Roe Removal

The Internet is (Still) for Porn, with Yoel Roth

Jun 7th, 2024 52m 44s

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by guest host Yoel Roth, former head of trust & safety at Twitter and now head of trust & safety at Match Group. Together th

Won't Someone Please Think of the Adults?

May 31st, 2024 53m 4s

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:EU Explores Whether Telegram Falls Under Strict New Content Law (Bloomberg)Too Small to Police, Too Big to Ignore: Teleg

Deepfake It Till You Make It

May 24th, 2024 57m 42s

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:Meta and Coinbase link up with Match to fight pig-butchering, romance scams (Fortune)Indian Voters Are Being Bombarded W

Do You Really Want the Government in Your DMs?

May 17th, 2024 48m 11s

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:Commission opens formal proceedings against Meta under the Digital Services Act related to the protection of minors on F

Between a Rock and a Hard Policy

May 10th, 2024 51m 20s

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership (Tom's Hardware)Tech firms must tame toxic a

This One Weird Trick to Save the Open Internet

May 3rd, 2024 1h 4m

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by guest host Alex Feerst, former General Counsel and head of trust & safety at Medium, and co-founder of the Digital Trust

The Bell Tolls for TikTok

Apr 26th, 2024 54m 53s

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:How to Fix the Online Child Exploitation Reporting System (Stanford Internet Observatory)TikTok faces EU Commission’s se

The Difficulty of Being a Teen Online

Apr 19th, 2024 52m 40s

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:Schools Were Just Supposed To Block Porn. Instead They Sabotaged Homework and Censored Suicide Prevention Sites (The Mar

Watch Out, AI is Getting More Persuasive

Apr 12th, 2024 41m 5s

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Ben is joined by guest host Alice Hunsberger, VP of Trust and Safety and Content Moderation at Partnerhero and former Global Head of Custom

Are Platforms Ready for Elections?

Apr 5th, 2024 57m 33s

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation, and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: Elon Musk's X appoints new safety chiefs as it seeks to rebuild ads business (Fortune)X’s ‘complimentary’ Premium push

The Most Moderated Word on Meta

Mar 29th, 2024 54m 52s

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation, and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: Users shocked to find Instagram limits political content by default (ArsTechnica)Oversight Board Publishes Policy Advi

Murthy, Reddit, and the Speech Deciders

Mar 22nd, 2024 58m 41s

In this week's online speech, content moderation and internet regulation round-up, Mike and Ben cover: Supreme Court Seems Skeptical Of The Claims That The Federal Government Coerced Social Media To Moderate (Techdirt) Reddit’s I.P.O. Is a Cont

The Global Internet - Or Is It?

Mar 15th, 2024 50m 54s

In this week's round-up of news about online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: The US TikTok ban and what it could mean for the future of the internet (Techdirt) The EU prepares to regulate Chinese marketpl

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Introducing Ctrl-Alt-Speech

Mar 5th, 2024 3m 53s

Welcome to Ctrl-Alt-Speech, a brand new a weekly news podcast co-created by Techdirt’s Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation’s Ben Whitelaw. Each episode will be looking at the latest news in online speech, covering issues regarding trust &