Message in a Bottleneck

from Ctrl-Alt-Speech · host Mike Masnick & Jennifer Granick

In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by civil liberties lawyer Jennifer Granick. Together they discuss: Kickstarter rolls back its mature content policy after outcry (Engadget) Apple gives update on the App Store and its key protections (9to5 Mac) Thoughts on the £1,000,000 SaSu Fine (Preston Byrne) Pushing back from Big Tech: Africa’s hard road to AI sovereignty (Rest of World) America’s dangerous, messy deepfakes crackdown is here (The Verge) X accounts are limited to 50 posts and 200 replies a day unless they pay for a blue checkmark (Engadget) Support the podcast by joining our Patreon, with special founder membership available until May 28th. 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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