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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