Miscellaneous
Alex opens the show with a look at Florida's newly proposed law to protect social media users from being unjustly banned from platforms. Next, a look at how Facebook has internally been classifying user's "vaccine hesitancy" levels and the Cyberspace Administration of China citing 105 apps for allegedly violating privacy laws. Also covered in this episode, a New York Times story covering the shocking privacy concessions Apple has made to operate in China, YouTube starting a fund to support #shorts creators, and the DC attorney general filing a new antitrust lawsuit against Amazon. The show closes out with Alex discussing Amazons imminent acquisition of movie studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (aka MGM). 00:00 - Subscribe for Tech & Business News Daily 00:44 - Florida Deplatforming Law 05:00 - Facebook "Vaccine Hesitancy" 10:34 - China Data Privacy Sanctions 13:57 - Shorts Creator Fund 16:11 - Apple's Chinese Data Center 20:59 - New Amazon Antitrust Suit 24:20 - Amazon Buys MGM Originally Aired: 05/25/21 #MGM #Apple #ChinaData