Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Duty Of Careful What You Wish For

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:

• Australians will be able to switch off social media algorithms under planned legislation (BBC News)
• Australia’s social media ban has an enforcement problem. These new laws aim to fix it (The Conversation)
• The Netherlands forced Meta to let users ditch algorithmic feeds. Here’s what happened (The Conversation)
• What We Know About Prosocial Feed-Ranking Algorithms (Prosocial Design Network)
• Anthropic researcher quits over AI labs ‘gambling with our lives’ (Financial Times)
• AI Agents Are Not Going “Rogue,” But Recent Developments Lead Increasingly-Concerned Researchers To Call For AI Slow Down (Techdirt)
• “We will not be silenced”: Imran Ahmed responds to court ruling (Center for Countering Digital Hate)

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

• USA: Terrorism designation has global consequences for open internet and free expression (Article 19)
• Rubio Uses Terrorism Law To Ban Secure Email Service (Reason)

Our fun links this week include the multi-view website browser and the internet roadtrip. 

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