Episode Details

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:

• Nepal to block some social media including Facebook (Reuters)
• Why Nepal Banned 26 Social Media Platforms And What It Means (Medianama)
• A parliament in flames, a leader toppled. Nepal’s Gen-Z protesters ask: What comes next? (CNN)
• When Trolls Take On Tyrants: 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over Extraterritorial Censorship (Techdirt)
• Wikipedia is resilient because it's boring (The Verge)
• Former Meta employees say they saw child abuse in VR before company blocked research (NBC News)
• Mark Zuckerberg sues Mark Zuckerberg (Techcrunch)

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).