Ben Whitelaw

There was a, there is a bit of a, a secret weapon for the Rays that I wasn't even aware of.

Thanks to Ben Whitelaw on Twitter, he showed this, this incredible graph about the Rays' outfield defense.

What it shows is their reactions are quick, and their routes are often indirect, and that, you know, when you see that Simpson got all these bad grades as a defender, it's 'cause he had poor route efficiency.

He wasn't running the right direction to the ball, and the same can be said for Mesa and Mullins.

know.

What's yours, Ben?

Well, I have come across a website that I...

Don't know if I'll ever need, but I kind of love.

Hello and welcome to Control Alt Speech, 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 October the 1st, 2026, and this week we're talking about platform readiness for next week's Brazil elections, Trump's much heralded AI accord, and for our extended Patreon episode, a potential turning point for terrorism content on the internet.

Controlled speech is the highly electable face of Mike Masnick, founder and editor of Tector, and me, Ben Whitelaw.

But as you heard from our opening, Mike is away this week, and we're joined by the brilliant Katie Harberth.

If any Controllable Speech listeners are based in New York and are around in October, I

Get into Ben's person X.

Yeah.

Sounds a bit creepy, but I'm up for it.

Hello and welcome to Control Alt Speech, 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 September 24th, 2026, and this week we're making sense of the New York noise about AI regulation, highlighting three ways that internet users are embarking on governance, and for our extended Patreon episode, what recent stories about Discord and ALO say about the state of age assurance right now.

Control Alt Speech is the highly effective age-appropriate musings... of Mike Masnick, founder and editor of Tector, and me, Ben Whitelaw, founder and editor of Everything in Moderation.

I think most of what we say is 18 plus.

It's September the 17th, 2026, and this week we're talking about EU teen ban announcement, some naughty data on AI in education, and for our extended patron episode, what it actually means to pace the frontier.

Talking of pacing, Controllable Speech is the slow drumbeat of weekly safety news from Mike Masnick, founder and editor of TechDev, and Ben Whitelaw, myself, the founder and editor of Everything in Moderation.

I thought you might like that one, Mike.

I had a few others lined up

Control Alt Speech is the always linear, never algorithmically sorted podcast.

co-hosted by Mike Bassnett, founder and editor of TechDirt, and me, Ben Whitelaw, founder and editor of Everything in Moderation.

Mike, do you think we should be creating a list of our tools for people to follow?

Oh, I wonder if there's something in that.

I mean, that was a central part of my Protocols Not Platforms paper.

It's a central part of what Blue Sky does with their algorithmic feed and choices.

Ben is reaching for the bell.

Ring the bell.