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) This episode is brought to you by our sponsor Safer by Thorn , a purpose-built CSAM and CSE solution. Powered by trusted data and Thorn’s issue expertise, Safer helps trust and safety teams proactively detect CSAM and child sexual exploitation messages. Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast from Techdirt and Everything in Moderation . Send us your feedback at
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