Zuck Starts Throwing His Weights Around

Become a Ctrl-Alt-Speech supporter to get extended episodes of the podcast plus the chance to submit stories for us to cover. In this week's episode, Mike and Ben cover: The U.S. Is About to Design an AI Regulator. Here’s How to Get It Right (Council on Foreign Relations) Mark Zuckerberg Says U.S. Should Accelerate AI Development, Not Restrict It (WSJ) Want AI you can trust? Start by building the right institutions (Atlantic Council) Anthropic Says It’s Against A Ban On Open Weight Models. It Just Wants To Ban Everything That Makes Them Good (Techdirt) The High Stakes Behind the EU’s €890M Google DMA Fine (Tech Policy Press) Europe bears its teeth, political panic about OpenAI hack and YouTube refines partner policy (Everything in Moderation) Trump vows new tariffs on the E.U. after Brussels fines Google $1 billion (Qz) And in the extended episode for Patreon supporters, they cover: Elon Musk’s xAI sues Minnesota over law banning ‘nudification’ technology (The Guardian) The Worst Person You Know Just Filed A Good First Amendment Lawsuit Against A Very Badly Drafted Nudify App Ban (Techdirt) Our fun links this week are a replica of Scooby Doo’s Mystery-Machine and the Saltburn cricket scandal because we need more satire right now. If you’re already a Patreon supporter, you can get the extended episode on Patreon. 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).