In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:
- It’s Cool to Have No Followers Now (New Yorker)
- Introducing Safe for Work? — all about T&S jobs (Everything in Moderation*)
- Kids Turn Podcast Comments Into Secret Chat Rooms, Because Of Course They Do (Techdirt)
- Reddit and Kick added to child social media ban (ABC News)
- X boss explains why ‘horrific’ video viewed by Axel Rudakubana wasn’t removed (The Independent)
- Southport Inquiry (YouTube)
- How Elon Musk is Boosting The British Right (Sky News)
- arXiv Changes Rules After Getting Spammed With AI-Generated 'Research' Papers (404 Media)
- TikTok Investigated in France Over Content That Promotes Suicide (Bloomberg)
- France Moves to Block the Shein Website Over a Sex Doll Scandal (New York Times)
- EU leaders paper over splits on US tech reliance (Politico)
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