With Great Platforms Come Great Responsibility

In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Ben is joined by Thomas Hughes, CEO of Appeals Centre Europe and former Director at the Oversight Board. Together they discuss:

• Appeals Centre Europe Transparency Report (ACE)
• Most people want platforms (not governments) to be responsible for moderating content (Reuters Institute) 
• Happy Birthday, Digital Services Act! – Time for a Reality Check (Algorithm Watch)
• Proof-of-age ID leaked in Discord data breach (The Guardian)
• Update on a Security Incident Involving Third-Party Customer Service (Discord)
• Another Day, Another Age Verification Data Breach: Discord’s Third-Party Partner Leaked Government IDs (Techdirt)
• Exclusive: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class (Migrant Insider)
• My Email to Tim Cook (Wiley Hodges — Substack)

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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).