Age Old Questions

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:

• It's official: Australia's teen social media ban isn't working, yet (Crikey)
• Social Media Minimum Age - Compliance update (eSafety Commision)
• Blunder from Down Under (Ctrl-Alt-Speech)
• April 3 could create a dangerous gap in child safety across Europe (Thorn)
• Commissioners pile pressure on Parliament to pass child sexual abuse bill (POLITICO)
• Weeks After Denouncing Government Censorship On Rogan, Zuckerberg Texted Elon Musk Offering To Take Down Content For DOGE (Techdirt)
• What Is YouTube’s Dominance Doing to Us? We Asked Its C.E.O. (The New York Times)
• This Episode is Broadly Safe To Listen To (Ctrl-Alt-Speech)
• Meta will "substantially reduce" describing Instagram teen accounts as PG-13 (Engadget)
• Rated R for Ridiculous (Ctrl-Alt-Speech)

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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).