Moderating is Such Sweet Sorrow

In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by Dave Willner, founder of Zentropi, and long-time trust & safety expert who worked at Facebook, AirBnB, and OpenAI in Trust & Safety roles. Together they discuss:
• Masnick's Impossibility Theorem: Content Moderation At Scale Is Impossible To Do Well (techdirt.com/2019/11/20/masnicks-impossibility…) (Techdirt)
• UK makes new attempt to access Apple cloud data (ft.com/content/d101fd62-14f9-4f51-beff-ea41e87…) (Financial Times)
• Imgur pulls out of UK after data regulator warns of fines (techcrunch.com/2025/09/30/imgur-pulls-out-of-u…) (TechCrunch)
• Leaked Meta guidelines show how it trains AI chatbots to respond to child sexual exploitation prompts (businessinsider.com/meta-ai-chatbot-children-f…) (Business Insider)
• OpenAI's Sora joins Meta in pushing AI-generated videos. Some are worried about a flood of 'AI slop' (abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/openais-so…) (ABC News)
• Flights in Afghanistan grounded after internet shutdown (bbc.com/news/articles/cdxqdy5nrlqo) (BBC)
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Ctrl-Alt-Speech is the podcast where we make sense of the major debates shaping online speech, platform power, content moderation and the future of the internet. It’s co-hosted by Mike Masnick (Techdirt (techdirt.com)) and Ben Whitelaw (Everything in Moderation (everythinginmoderation.co)).