In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: How platforms are responding to the Charlie Kirk shooting (The Verge) Bluesky Issues Warning to Any Users Celebrating Charlie Kirk Assassination (Newsweek) Right-Wing Activists Are Targeting People for Allegedly Celebrating Charlie Kirk’s Death (Wired) Charlie Kirk Was Shot and Killed in a Post-Content-Moderation World (Wired) Has Britain Gone Too Far With Its Digital Controls? (New York Times) The Censorship Alarm Is Ringing in the Wrong Direction (Public Knowledge) We now know who the new owners of TikTok will be - if Trump gets his deal done with Xi (CNN) Nepal’s Social Media Ban Backfires as Politics Moves to a Chat Room (New York Times) Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast from Techdirt and Everything in Moderation . Send us your feedback at
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