E Pluribus Chaos

In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by guest host Kat Duffy, Senior Fellow for Digital and Cyberspace Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations and CEO of RightsDuff Strategies. They cover:

• Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not) (Techdirt)
• America’s Global Presence Isn’t ‘Soft Power.’ It’s a Superpower. (Foreign Policy)
• These teenage boys were blackmailed online – and it cost them their lives (USA Today)
• United Nations Convention against Cybercrime (UN)
• Chairman Jordan Subpoenas Big Tech for Information on Foreign Censorship of American Speech (House Judiciary Committee)

This episode is brought to you with financial support from the Future of Online Trust & Safety Fund.

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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).