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In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:
- My year with a flip phone (Financial Times)
- Claude’s Constitution (Anthropic)
- From the CEO: What’s coming to YouTube in 2026 (Youtube)
- BBC to show programmes on YouTube in landmark deal (Financial Times)
- Rand Paul: I’ve changed my mind — Google and YouTube can’t be trusted to do the right thing and must be reined in (NY Post)
- Rand Paul Only Wants Google To Be The Arbiter Of Truth When The Videos Are About Him (Techdirt)
- Roskomnadzor Denies Reports That It’s Throttling Telegram Over Content Moderation Disputes (Moscow Times)
- Europeans set to launch an alternative to X. It’s called W (Cybernews)
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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).
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