Have Yourself a Very Meta Christmas

In the last Ctrl-Alt-Speech of the year, Mike and Ben round up the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation with the following stories:

• Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content | Global development (The Guardian)
• Facebook is testing a link-posting limit for professional accounts and pages (Techcrunch)
• Meta adopts new age-check system to meet global child safety laws (FT)
• Russian ban on Roblox gaming platform sparks rare protest (Reuters)
• OpenAI hires George Osborne to spearhead global ‘Stargate’ expansion (FT)
• Oscars Bolts From ABC to YouTube Starting in 2029 (Hollywood Reporter)

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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).