Message in a Bottleneck

In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by civil liberties lawyer Jennifer Granick. Together they discuss:

• Kickstarter rolls back its mature content policy after outcry (Engadget)
• Apple gives update on the App Store and its key protections (9to5 Mac)
• Thoughts on the £1,000,000 SaSu Fine (Preston Byrne)
• Pushing back from Big Tech: Africa’s hard road to AI sovereignty (Rest of World)
• America’s dangerous, messy deepfakes crackdown is here (The Verge)
• X accounts are limited to 50 posts and 200 replies a day unless they pay for a blue checkmark (Engadget)

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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).