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 episode, Mike and Ben cover:
- The Official Sonic Discord Server’s Launch Went About As Poorly As You’d Expect (Kotaku)
- Vladimir Putin’s Forkiverse (Search Engine)
- They trade child sex abuse material. They find each other on TikTok (Prospect)
- Meta rolls out new AI tools to detect ads that secretly lead to child sexual abuse material (TechCrunch)
- TikTok gave teens, children placebo safety feature in experiment, New York alleges (Reuters)
- DNS Resolver Quad9 Rejects French Piracy Blocks, Weighs Exit as beIN Seeks Up to €580K a Day (TorrentFreak)
And in the extended episode for Patreon supporters, they cover:
- EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request (The Guardian)
- EEAS runs scared of US ‘disinformation’ debate (Rapporteur)
- Canada drops sponsorship of conference that cites U.S. as foreign-interference actor (The Globe and Mail)
Our fun links this week include the Job Trail game and Mike Tomlin’s Minecraft City.
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