Deviation from the Teen

In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Ben is joined by Kenji Yoshino, who has the excellent title of Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law at New York University School of Law and the Director of the Meltzer Center for Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging. Kenji is also a member of the Oversight Board. Together Ben and Kenji discuss: ‘Andrew Tate is dead’: inside the minds of 16-year-olds (The Observer) Introducing the Teen Safety Blueprint (OpenAI) OpenAI unveils blueprint for teen AI safety standards (Axios) OpenAI Faces Legal Storm Over Claims Its AI Drove Users to Suicide, Delusions (KQED) Irish watchdog opens content moderation probe into Elon Musk's X (Euractiv) This episode is brought to you by our sponsor CCIA, an international, not-for-profit trade association representing a broad cross section of communications and technology firms and that promotes open markets, open systems, and open networks. 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).