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EPISODE · Mar 28, 2025 · 52 MIN

Chief Equivocation Officer

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:X takes Indian govt to court, alleges arbitrary censorship of content (Business Standard)India criticises X for calling compliance website a censorship tool (Reuters)Musk’s X suspends opposition accounts in Turkey amid civil unrest (Politico)Elon Musk pressured Reddit’s CEO on content moderation (The Verge)Snapchat CEO Talks Zuckerberg, Content Moderation, AR Glasses and More (SocialMediaToday)YouTube CEO on content moderation: ‘Where the world was five years ago is very different’ than today (Semafor)Porn on Spotify Is Infiltrating the Platform’s Top Podcast Charts (Bloomberg)Ofcom fines provider of OnlyFans £1.05 million (Ofcom)A New Social Media App Punishes Users for Rage-Baiting (Wired)This episode is brought to you with financial support from the Future of Online Trust & Safety Fund. 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).

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: X takes Indian govt to court, alleges arbitrary censorship of content (Business Standard)India criticises X for calling compliance website a censorship tool (Reuters)Musk’s X suspends opposition accounts in Turkey amid civil unrest (Politico)Elon Musk pressured Reddit’s CEO on content moderation (The Verge)Snapchat CEO Talks Zuckerberg, Content Moderation, AR Glasses an...

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