Month: January 2021

The International Business Times reports China might nationalize Alibaba. Here’s what that has to do with China’s digital currency efforts. 

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Today on the Brief:

• Whales accumulated during yesterday’s crash 
• Kentucky legislators introduce bill to attract crypto miners
• UBS lowers the threshold for charging savers because of negative interest rates

Our main discussion: What China’s prospective nationalization of Alibaba has to do with the nation’s digital currency efforts. 

In this episode, NLW:

• Gives a background on China’s digital currency project
• Discusses why the DCEP is motivated by a larger attempt to internationalize the RMB
• Background on Alipay, Ant Financial and Alibaba
• How Alibaba founder Jack Ma annoyed the CCP and why he hasn’t been seen publicly in two months

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Trump supporters threaten new violence in all 50 states. Two Capitol Police officers suspended. California's mounting COVID deaths. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.

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Moves to shutter the president’s accounts and to crimp corners of the internet given to right-wing extremism raise thorny questions, both about free speech and social-media firms’ business models. Our public-policy editor takes a broad look at girlhood: how women’s adolescence has changed for the better but is challenged mightily by covid-19. And science’s bid to save more snake-bite victims’ lives.

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The news to know for Tuesday, January 12th, 2021!

We have updates about:

• the FBI's memo to law enforcement agencies warning of more threats that could impact every state
• why at least a dozen Capitol Police officers are under investigation
• House Democrats taking the first formal step to impeach President Trump again and what Republicans are saying about it
• why an NFL coach turned down a rare lifetime honor
• the phrase Facebook decided to ban
• who is taking over shows from the short-lived Quibi app

Those stories and more in just 10 minutes!

Head to www.theNewsWorthy.com or see sources below to read more about any of the stories mentioned today.

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Sources:

FBI Braces for State Capitol Violence: ABC News, NBC News, CNN

Inauguration Security Plans: WaPo, Politico, The Hill, USA Today

House Introduces Impeachment: NY Times, Reuters, The Hill, WSJ

Trump Visiting Border Wall: AP, Texas Tribune, ABC News

Two Capitol PD Officers Suspended: CNN, NPR, NBC News, USCP, WaPo

DHS Secretary Steps Down: NPR, CNBC, FOX News, Chad Wolf

NBA Cancels More Games: CBS News, AP, NBA, ESPN

Bill Belichick Declines Medal of Freedom: USA Today, AP, ESPN

Facebook Banning “Stop the Steal”: The Verge, WSJ, NBC News, Facebook

Twitter Removes QAnon Accounts: NY Times, WaPo, Twitter

Parler Sues Amazon: NPR, WSJ, Politico

Roku Buys Quibi Content: Ars Technica, USA Today, The Verge, Variety

Following the mob violence at the U.S. Capitol last week, Facebook suspended President Donald Trump from its platform, and Twitter followed suit shortly thereafter.

Over the weekend, Google and Apple removed Parler, a social media platform widely used by conservatives, from its app stores. Then, Amazon suspended Parler from its web services Sunday evening. Now, many Americans are voicing their concerns over the power such platforms have to limit free speech. 

Klon Kitchen, director of the Center for Technology Policy at The Heritage Foundation, joins the show to explain why Twitter and Facebook say they banned the president, and why Google, Apple, and Amazon are actively suppressing Parler.

Kitchen also explains what laws and reforms are needed to keep the power of technology giants in check. 

We also cover these stories: 

• Democrats file an impeachment article against Trump, citing the Jan. 6 unrest at the Capitol.
• Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., asks that Sens. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and Ted Cruz, R-Texas be removed from the Senate following their attempts to object to the certification of the 2020 presidential election.
• The social media platform Parler sues Amazon after being suspended from Amazon Web Services. 

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