No Child Left Online

Become a Ctrl-Alt-Speech supporter (  / ctrlaltspeech  ) to get extended episodes of the podcast plus the chance to submit stories for us to cover.  In this week's episode, Mike and Ben cover: • What is in the EU's planned KIDS Act? (https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigat...) (Reuters) • Proposal for EU KIDS Act - 'EU Keeping Internet Digital Spaces Accountable and Trustworthy' (https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu...) (EU Commission) • France makes new attempt to ban social media for children under age 15 (https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/arti...) (Le Monde) • Reading scores plummet as ‘digital distraction’ harms students (https://www.ft.com/content/0b38ab3f-c...) (FT) • We are setting up a generation to fail at school (https://www.ft.com/content/724f8ecb-1...) (FT) • TikTok rejects Meta ads pushing rivals to join child safety settlement (https://searchengineland.com/tiktok-r...) (Search Engine Land) • Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats (https://www.404media.co/inside-projec...) (404 Media) And in the extended episode for Patreon supporters (  / ctrlaltspeech  ) , they cover: • We Must Pace the Frontier (https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-...) (Dario Amodei) • OpenAI Wants to Know if an AI Industry Slowdown Would Even Be Legal (https://www.wired.com/story/openai-wa...) (Wired) • Trump goes scorched earth on AI warnings, raging about data center opposition and regulation (https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/14/trump...) (CNBC) • The AI policy window is open. We need to act. (https://openai.com/index/ai-policy-wi...) (OpenAI) Our fun links this week include a “Welcome to the Internet (  / bfleming_welcome-to-the-internet-activity-...  ) ” presentation for a 13-year-old and God’s Eye View (https://github.com/bilawalsidhu/gods-...) , a slightly terrifying bit of open source software to explore the world. If you’re already a Patreon supporter, you can get the extended episode on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/collection/21...) . Follow us on Instagram (  / ctrlaltspeech  ) , YouTube (   / @ctrlaltspeech  ) , and Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/ctrlaltspeec...) . 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 (https://www.techdirt.com/) ) and Ben Whitelaw (Everything in Moderation (https://www.everythinginmoderation.co/) ).