Making the Best of a Ban Situation

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In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Ben is joined by Cori Crider, executive director of the Future of Technology Institute, an independent non-profit focusing on technology that serves the public. She previously co-founded legal non-profit Foxglove and led national security litigation at human rights organisation, Reprieve. Together, Ben and Cori discuss:

• Australia to double potential fines for Facebook and Instagram (ABC News)
• 85% of kids are still using social media despite ban. But we need a new measure to judge its success (The Conversation)
• German expert panel suggests social media ban for under-13s (Reuters)
• EXCLUSIVE: EU could announce social media ban for kids in September (Euractiv)
• The EU Wants To Grow Homegrown Tech. Its Courts Keep Making That Impossible (Techdirt)
• Eurosky x Funk (German pub broadcaster youth programme) partnership (Linkedin)

And in the extended episode for Patreon supporters, they cover:

• TikTok announce major redundancies amid push for AI content moderation (The Independent)
• Meta looks to AI to review harmful content in cost-cutting drive (Financial Times)

Our fun links this week are the rise of dopamine sites (Ben) and Polaroid’s billboard campaign (Cori).

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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).