Ctrl-Alt-Speech: The TickTock On TikTok
from the ctrl-alt-speech dept
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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:
- Application Of Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act To TikTok (The White House)
- Restoring Freedom Of Speech And Ending Federal Censorship (The White House)
America Is No Longer the Home of the Free Internet (The Atlantic) - Good morning, America: Why India banned TikTok 5 years back (India Today)
- Facebook, X, YouTube to do more against online hate speech, EU says (Reuters)
- Commission welcomes the integration of the revised Code of conduct on countering illegal hate speech online into the Digital Services Act (European Commission)
- Bluesky 2024 Moderation Report (Bluesky)
- Bluesky’s 2024 moderation report shows how quickly harmful content grew as new users flocked in (Engadget)
- The Technological Poison Pill: How ATProtocol Encourages Competition, Resists Evil Billionaires, Lock-In & Enshittification (Techdirt)
- We need to protect the protocol that runs Bluesky (MIT Technology Review)
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This episode is brought to you with financial support from the Future of Online Trust & Safety Fund.
Filed Under: atprotocol, content moderation, donald trump, dsa, eu, first amendment, free speech
Companies: bluesky, bytedance, meta, tiktok, twitter
Comments on “Ctrl-Alt-Speech: The TickTock On TikTok”
“They want to remove the hate speech anyways for business reasons”
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I’m glad Europe is picking up the torch as things turn into a nightmare over here.
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I’m not too confident on the EU. They got their own far right problem and a real hard-on for surveillance.
But I will agree that it’s definitely better than the US right now.
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Cozying up with hate groups probably isn’t great for business, especially for the people being targeted who might otherwise be customers.
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And yet Meta and X and more cozy up to hate groups and hateful people, giving them special treatment. If the companies wanted to remove hate speech, why are they letting it flourish? What Mike says here about them wanting to get rid of hate speech doesn’t make sense in the face of the current realities.
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Bluesky is just another site which censors porn or porn that offends them. They dress that up with PR speak.