Message in a Bottleneck

Ctrl-Alt-Speech · May 21, 2026 · 54m · transcript

In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by civil liberties lawyer Jennifer Granick. Together they discuss:

Kickstarter rolls back its mature content policy after outcry (Engadget)

Apple gives update on the App Store and its key protections (9to5 Mac)

Thoughts on the £1,000,000 SaSu Fine (Preston Byrne)

Pushing back from Big Tech: Africa’s hard road to AI sovereignty (Rest of World)

America’s dangerous, messy deepfakes crackdown is here (The Verge)

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