Ctrl-Alt-Speech: In The Modi For Takedowns

Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw.

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

• India summons Meta executives over briefly restricted Modi Facebook post (Reuters)
• ‘No explanation given’: Arvind Kejriwal claims Meta restricted his account in India (The Times of India)
• Meta apologises to India for restricting PM Modi’s post (Reuters)
• India temporarily bans Telegram over exam paper leak concern (BBC)
• eBay agrees $56m settlement with bloggers over harassment case (BBC)
• Artist starts legal case against Meta for deleting her Instagram account (The Art Newspaper)

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

• Telegram CEO says an extortionist planted CSAM in a chat to get it pulled from the App Store (The Verge)
• TikTok Withheld a Safety Feature From Millions. One Died by Suicide (Bloomberg)
• TikTok Says ‘Moderator Error’ Kept Perez Hilton Livestream Up (Wired)

Our fun links this week are the Nintendo gameplay counsellors and a revamped app for sharing your toilet flushing habits. 

If you’re already a Patreon supporter, you can get the extended episode on Patreon.