EPISODE · Apr 2, 2026 · 50 MIN
Age Old Questions
from Ctrl-Alt-Speech · host Mike Masnick & Ben Whitelaw
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: It's official: Australia's teen social media ban isn't working, yet (Crikey) Social Media Minimum Age - Compliance update (eSafety Commision) Blunder from Down Under (Ctrl-Alt-Speech) April 3 could create a dangerous gap in child safety across Europe (Thorn) Commissioners pile pressure on Parliament to pass child sexual abuse bill (POLITICO) Weeks After Denouncing Government Censorship On Rogan, Zuckerberg Texted Elon Musk Offering To Take Down Content For DOGE (Techdirt) What Is YouTube’s Dominance Doing to Us? We Asked Its C.E.O. (The New York Times) This Episode is Broadly Safe To Listen To (Ctrl-Alt-Speech) Meta will "substantially reduce" describing Instagram teen accounts as PG-13 (Engadget) Rated R for Ridiculous (Ctrl-Alt-Speech) If you’ve got Elon Musk in your Ctrl-Alt-Speech 2026 Bingo Card this week, you’re in luck. Follow us on Instagram, YouTube, and Bluesky. 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).
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In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: It's official: Australia's teen social media ban isn't working, yet (Crikey)Social Media Minimum Age - Compliance update (eSafety Commision)Blunder from Down Under (Ctrl-Alt-Speech)April 3 could create a dangerous gap in child safety across Europe (Thorn)Commissioners pile pressure on Parliament to pass child sexual abuse bill (POLITICO)Weeks After Denouncing Government...
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