Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Cupertino d’État
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:
- Tech bosses threatened with prison if they fail to protect children (The Times)
- Apple and Google given three months to ban nude images on children’s devices (BBC News)
- Keir Starmer’s social media ban for under-16s could backfire, experts warn (OpenDemocracy)
- Apple previews new child safety features (Apple)
- Apple’s WWDC keynote was very different, but this will be the new normal (9to5mac)
- Ottawa introduces bill to restrict social media for teens, regulate AI chatbots (Globe and Mail)
- Australia builds enforcement layer behind age assurance laws (Biometric Update)
- NCAC Welcomes Meta Oversight Board’s New Account Recommendations (NCAC)
And in the extended episode for Patreon supporters, they cover:
- Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 (Anthropic)
- Microsoft restricts Claude Fable for employees over data retention concern (The Verge)
- The Rise of the Compliant Speech Platform (Lawfare)
- Policy on the AI Exponential (Dario Amodei)
Our fun links this week are the 7-0 World Cup game (Ben) and Chipotlai Max (Mike).
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is the podcast where we make sense of the major debates shaping online speech, platform power, content moderation and the future of the internet. It’s co-hosted by Mike Masnick (Techdirt) and Ben Whitelaw (Everything in Moderation).
If you’re already a Patreon supporter, you can get the extended episode on Patreon.
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Christopher Holloway is the founder and director of Progressive Robot, a UK-based technology company. A full-stack engineer with more than two decades of experience, he works across PHP development, ecommerce, Linux infrastructure, technical SEO and AI automation, and writes here on technology, AI, hardware and software.
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