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Business Matters: US Government Faces Web Censorship Criticism

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US Government Faces Web Censorship Criticism

BBC World Service - Business Matters, US Government Faces Web Censorship Criticism

Two legal cases brought by the US government have led to claims of web censorship

Two legal cases brought by the US government have led to criticism that the administration is, in effect, trying to censor the web

Are internet freedoms under threat in the United States? Dreamhost, a web hosting company, says it's been asked to hand over details identifying more than a million people who visited a site that was organising a protest against Donald Trump at his inauguration as president. We ask Adrian Shahbaz from Freedom House for his perspective. 

How worried should we be by China's debt pile? The International Monetary Fund says “International experience suggests that China’s credit growth is on a dangerous trajectory.” We ask David Dollar from the Brookings Institution's China Centre is the IMF right that China's debt poses a danger?

And it's forty years since Elvis Presley - the man known as the king of rock and roll - died. In recent years there's been a repackaging of Elvis's music to make him more accessible to a younger audience. The BBC’s Richard Collings has been examining signs that the market for Elvis souvenirs and memorabilia may be cooling off.

Rob Young is joined by Simon Littlewood, the President of AC Growth Delivered in Singapore and Tony Wagner from the US public radio programme Marketplace in Los Angeles.

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