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This Episode is Broadly Safe to Listen To

23 January 2026 46:30 Mike Masnick & Ben Whitelaw

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About this episode

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

  • My year with a flip phone (Financial Times)
  • Claude’s Constitution (Anthropic)
  • From the CEO: What’s coming to YouTube in 2026 (Youtube)
  • BBC to show programmes on YouTube in landmark deal (Financial Times)
  • Rand Paul: I’ve changed my mind — Google and YouTube can’t be trusted to do the right thing and must be reined in (NY Post)
  • Rand Paul Only Wants Google To Be The Arbiter Of Truth When The Videos Are About Him (Techdirt)
  • Roskomnadzor Denies Reports That It’s Throttling Telegram Over Content Moderation Disputes (Moscow Times)
  • Europeans set to launch an alternative to X. It’s called W (Cybernews)

Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast from Techdirt and Everything in Moderation. Send us your feedback at [email protected] and sponsorship enquiries to [email protected]. Thanks for listening.

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