No Child Left Online

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In this week's episode, Mike and Ben cover:

• What is in the EU's planned KIDS Act? (Reuters)
• Proposal for EU KIDS Act - 'EU Keeping Internet Digital Spaces Accountable and Trustworthy' (EU Commission)
• France makes new attempt to ban social media for children under age 15 (Le Monde)
• Reading scores plummet as ‘digital distraction’ harms students (FT)
• We are setting up a generation to fail at school (FT)
• TikTok rejects Meta ads pushing rivals to join child safety settlement (Search Engine Land)
• Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats (404 Media)

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

• We Must Pace the Frontier (Dario Amodei)
• OpenAI Wants to Know if an AI Industry Slowdown Would Even Be Legal (Wired)
• Trump goes scorched earth on AI warnings, raging about data center opposition and regulation (CNBC)
• The AI policy window is open. We need to act. (OpenAI)

Our fun links this week include a “Welcome to the Internet” presentation for a 13-year-old and God’s Eye View, a slightly terrifying bit of open source software to explore the world.

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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).