Episode Description
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In this week's episode, Mike and Ben cover:
- Australians will be able to switch off social media algorithms under planned legislation (BBC News)
- Australia’s social media ban has an enforcement problem. These new laws aim to fix it (The Conversation)
- The Netherlands forced Meta to let users ditch algorithmic feeds. Here’s what happened (The Conversation)
- What We Know About Prosocial Feed-Ranking Algorithms (Prosocial Design Network)
- Anthropic researcher quits over AI labs ‘gambling with our lives’ (Financial Times)
- AI Agents Are Not Going “Rogue,” But Recent Developments Lead Increasingly-Concerned Researchers To Call For AI Slow Down (Techdirt)
- “We will not be silenced”: Imran Ahmed responds to court ruling (Center for Countering Digital Hate)
And in the extended episode for Patreon supporters, they cover:
- USA: Terrorism designation has global consequences for open internet and free expression (Article 19)
- Rubio Uses Terrorism Law To Ban Secure Email Service (Reason)
Our fun links this week include the multi-view website browser and the internet roadtrip.
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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).