Tech News: Coups and CES
TechStuff
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4.3 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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The assault on Capitol Hill in the US has already had an enormous impact, including in the world of tech. We look at how social platforms and hosting services have responded. We also learn about what we'll be seeing this week at CES, plus more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Tech Stuff, a production from I Heart Radio. |
| 0:08.0 | Hey there and welcome to Tech Stuff. I'm your host Jonathan Strickland. I'm an |
| 0:16.1 | executive producer with I Heart Radio and I love all things Tech and this is the |
| 0:21.8 | Tech News episode for Tuesday, January 12, 2021. |
| 0:28.0 | And before I jump into it, I should also point out that when I record these episodes I record them the day before they publish |
| 0:36.0 | that gives my super producer Tari enough time to edit and publish these episodes, which explains why when I recorded last Thursday's episode, |
| 0:48.0 | I didn't have any mention of the assault on the United States Capitol at all because as I was recording that |
| 0:55.6 | episode that had not yet happened in fact it was right after I had finished |
| 1:00.4 | recording and I was starting to go back and listen to that recording that the news was |
| 1:07.2 | starting to break about that situation. |
| 1:10.0 | And so today's episode has some of the fallout from that, from the tech perspective. |
| 1:18.1 | So since our last news episode, there have been a ton of developments in the United States involving social media, |
| 1:24.6 | the president of the United States, and a platform called parlor. |
| 1:29.4 | Twitter, |
| 1:33.0 | Twitter, and Instagram have all banned Trump from posting to their platforms. |
| 1:36.0 | YouTube has been removing videos. |
| 1:38.0 | Reddit shut down a subreddit called R slash Donald Trump for violating policies that involve the restrictions |
| 1:47.2 | against promoting hate speech or encouraging violence. |
| 1:50.8 | And Tik-Toc has been removing videos that relate to the riots on Capitol Hill, |
| 1:55.0 | leading to some people joking that TikTok banned Donald Trump |
| 2:00.0 | before Trump could ban TikTok. |
| 2:02.0 | Each of these platforms have done... before Trump could ban Tik-Tok. |
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