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It's a Banned, Banned, Banned, Banned World
Ctrl-Alt-Speech
Ctrl-Alt-Speech
It's a Banned, Banned, Banned, Banned World
Sep 11, 2025
Season 1
Episode 71
Mike Masnick & Ben Whitelaw
In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:
- Nepal to block some social media including Facebook (Reuters)
- Why Nepal Banned 26 Social Media Platforms And What It Means (Medianama)
- A parliament in flames, a leader toppled. Nepal’s Gen-Z protesters ask: What comes next? (CNN)
- When Trolls Take On Tyrants: 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over Extraterritorial Censorship (Techdirt)
- Wikipedia is resilient because it's boring (The Verge)
- Former Meta employees say they saw child abuse in VR before company blocked research (NBC News)
- Mark Zuckerberg sues Mark Zuckerberg (Techcrunch)
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