Rated R for Ridiculous

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:
• Sam Altman says OpenAI isn’t ‘moral police of the world’ after erotica ChatGPT post blows up (cnbc.com/2025/10/15/altman-open-ai-moral-polic…) (CNBC)
• Where are all the women on Sora 2? This could be a nightmare for OpenAI (businessinsider.com/sora-videos-openai-content…). (Business Insider)
• Musk’s AI Is Being Used to Make Hardcore Porn: ‘Grok Is Learning Genitalia Really Fast!’ (rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/elon…) (Rolling Stone)
• Instagram Will Limit Content for Teenagers Based on PG-13 Ratings (nytimes.com/2025/10/14/technology/instagram-te…) (NY Times)
• UK MPs urged to investigate TikTok’s plans to cut 439 content moderator jobs (theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/13/uk-mps-…) (The Guardian)
• TikTok ‘directs child accounts to pornographic content within a few clicks’ (theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/03/tiktok-…) (The Guardian)
• New AI video tools are fuelling violent racism on TikTok (thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025-10-16/n…) (The Bureau of Investigative Journalism)
• New York City Sues Instagram Rather Than Teach Kids Filters Aren’t Real (techdirt.com/2025/10/15/new-york-city-sues-ins…) (Techdirt)
• Kids who use social media score lower on reading and memory tests, a study shows (npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/10/13/…) (NPR)
• Congress is Asking the Wrong Questions About Discord and Boys (time.com/7323695/discord-hearing-congress-extr…) (Time)
• Adolescence star Stephen Graham launches global project asking fathers to write to their sons (theguardian.com/books/2025/oct/15/adolescence-…) (The Guardian)
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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)).