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Before the California Democratic Party State Convention in San Francisco last weekend, Sen. Elizabeth Warren also unveiled a billboard near the main Caltrain station that called to “Break Up Big Tech.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say breakups are unlikely in the short term, and Rep. David Cicilline, the Rhode Island Democrat who leads the subcommittee pursuing the House investigation, called such measures a “last resort.” But even without that, Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple could face new restrictions on their power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple all declined to comment on the investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a look at the cases that could be brought against them and what their defenses could be.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Facebook\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>With 2.4 billion users, $56 billion in revenue last year and a name that’s synonymous with social media, Facebook is certainly big. But is it an illegal, competition-crushing monopoly?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal regulators are already \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11742542/facebook-anticipates-an-ftc-privacy-fine-of-up-to-5-billion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">investigating the company’s privacy practices\u003c/a>. But the antitrust question has been rumbling in the background, with critics calling for spinning off WhatsApp and Instagram. Warren has called for breaking up Big Tech, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/09/opinion/sunday/chris-hughes-facebook-zuckerberg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">as has Chris Hughes\u003c/a>, a co-founder of Facebook. Former Vice President Joe Biden has said that he is open to the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11742542,news_11659038,science_1921753\"]Critics believe a breakup is needed because Facebook can squash competitors either by buying them or using its enormous resources to mimic services they offer — as it’s done with Snapchat, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook executives have been calling broadly for regulation, though nothing that comes close to breaking it up. In a recent statement, the company’s vice president of global affairs, Nick Clegg, said Facebook “accepts that with success comes accountability. But you don’t enforce accountability by calling for the breakup of a successful American company.” CEO Mark \u003ca href=\"https://www.apnews.com/e7afbd4c480347f8ac809a2e5cd4baca\">Zuckerberg has called for\u003c/a>“new rules” in four areas: harmful content, election integrity, privacy and data portability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook has also stressed that it has competitors in messaging and digital communication, including Apple and Google.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New York University law professor Eleanor Fox said that because antitrust law focuses on companies that raise prices too much, and Facebook is free, it will be a tough to break up the business. And Facebook commands less than a quarter of worldwide digital advertising, well behind Google.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warren, however, has laid out plans for legislation that targets companies with more than $25 billion of annual revenue. It would limit their ability to expand and force parts of their business to operate as separate entities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Google\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As Google becomes a leading mail provider, search engine and advertising platform, federal regulators are starting to wonder if it needs to be knocked down a bit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics say Google’s dominance in search has allowed it to squash rivals — notably because Google can show its own products above competitors’ or feature its own ads prominently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google might argue it doesn’t have an obligation to do business with its rivals at all — an argument that other companies have made when faced with similar challenges, said Sandeep Vaheesan, legal director for Open Markets Institute, which advocates breaking up monopolies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s Google’s technology and Google can use it as it wishes, goes one line of reasoning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11711884,news_11680985\"]Google has also faced scrutiny over the practices it uses to get its search and other products featured on smartphones. Some say Google imposes too many self-serving regulations on smartphone makers who use Google’s Android operating system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Google might simply argue that Android users like Google products and want them on their phones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under existing laws, it is difficult to make the case that Google has monopoly power, “even though I think a lot of people think it’s really obvious,” Fox said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Apple\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Since its opening in 2008, Apple’s pioneering app store has given customers instant access to services that entertain, enlighten and engage. But it’s also a place where Apple controls all the access and sets commission rates for subscriptions and other purchases made through the apps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it opens an investigation, the Justice Department is most likely to focus on whether Apple is abusing its veto and pricing power to throttle and gouge its competition. 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Apple also says its store includes apps that compete with its own products, including Google Maps and Google’s Chrome browser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also under criticism is the 30% cut that Apple pockets on new subscription sign-ups during the first year and a 15% slice for renewals. The app store is expected to generate about $16 billion in revenue this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple says the commissions cover costs for running the app store, including hiring people to review apps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Antitrust regulators could try to impose requirements that lower Apple’s commissions or, in a worst-case scenario, force it to spin off the app store. The latter option, though, could hurt consumers by making iPhones and other Apple products more cumbersome to use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wedbush Securities analyst Daniel Ives likened a breakup to “a complex and almost impossible Siamese twin operation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Amazon\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The only one of the major tech companies not based in the Bay Area, Amazon has grown from an online bookseller into a gigantic e-commerce player with its tentacles in everything from web hosting to streaming video to groceries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The European Union’s antitrust chief has been conducting an early-stage probe into whether Amazon is using data to gain an edge on third-party merchants, who are both its customers and rivals. Italy has been looking into whether Amazon abused its dominance by offering preferential treatment to companies that used Amazon’s own delivery-management services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cicilline, the congressman, said Amazon has identified bestselling products elsewhere, rolled out replicas under its own brand and then steered customers to its own products over those of its rivals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Warren tweeted in April that big tech companies like Amazon should be broken up, Amazon tweeted back: “Walmart is much larger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/amazonnews/status/1120780868614627328\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos made a similar case in a recent letter to shareholders: “Amazon today remains a small player in global retail. We represent a low single-digit percentage of the retail market, and there are much larger retailers in every country where we operate. 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The groups will also lose their accounts on Instagram, which is owned by Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've always banned individuals or organizations that promote or engage in violence and hate, regardless of ideology,\" Facebook said in a statement, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/2/18526964/facebook-ban-alex-jones-laura-loomer-milo-louis-farrakhan\">The Verge\u003c/a>. \"The process for evaluating potential violators is extensive and it is what led us to our decision to remove these accounts today.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/communitystandards/dangerous_individuals_organizations\">bans \u003c/a>\"dangerous individuals and organizations\" that engage in violence or have an ideology that attacks individuals based on race, religion, ethnicity, or sexual orientation. A Facebook spokesperson \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/02/tech/facebook-ban-louis-farrakhan-infowars-alex-jones-milo-laura-loomer/index.html\">told CNN\u003c/a> that the company undertakes a lengthy review process before a ban, looking at factors such as whether someone has called for violence, and whether they use hateful slurs to describe themselves in their \"About\" section.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones told \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/05/02/facebook-bans-extremist-leaders-including-louis-farrakhan-alex-jones-milo-yiannopoulos-being-dangerous/?utm_term=.574b021c7afe\">The Washington Post\u003c/a> that Facebook's actions were \"authoritarian,\" saying that they never gave him any direct notice that they found his posts \"dangerous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The social media network has come under pressure for allowing hate to spread online. Its move comes not long after the shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand, in which the killer livestreamed a video that was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/03/19/704690054/facebook-admits-mosque-shooting-video-was-viewed-at-least-4-000-times\">viewed more than 4,000 times \u003c/a>on Facebook before it was taken down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The timing is never an accident,\" Angelo Carusone, president of the liberal organization Media Matters, told the Post. \"The reality is, people are getting killed. There are mass shootings and mass murders that are clearly being connected to ideas like white genocide, which are fueling radicalization. The conditions have changed. When you have these massive catalyzing moments that are connected to real-life consequences, it puts pressure on Facebook and others to look in the mirror.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some free speech advocates have cautioned that Facebook's attempts to police hate speech could lead to unintended consequences. When Facebook announced in March that it was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/03/27/707258353/facebook-bans-white-nationalism-and-separatism-content-from-its-platforms\">upping its efforts to ban white nationalism\u003c/a> from its platform, ACLU staff attorney Vera Eidelman cautioned that \"every time Facebook makes the choice to remove content, a single company is exercising an unchecked power to silence individuals and remove them from what has become an indispensable platform.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/1124020603688820740\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eidelman told NPR nothing is stopping Facebook or other platforms from using that same power to censor content on other topics, such as abortion rights or climate change. \"For the same reason that the Constitution prevents the government from exercising such power, we should be wary of encouraging its exercise by corporations that are answerable to their private shareholders rather than the broader public interest,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In posts on other platforms, the banned individuals expressed their displeasure at the decision. \"Reports are true. I have been banned by Facebook,\" Watson wrote on Twitter. \"In an authoritarian society controlled by a handful of Silicon Valley giants, all dissent must be purged.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because it took \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-bans-alex-jones-extremists/\">longer than expected\u003c/a> for Facebook to purge the accounts, the banned individuals were able to let followers know which other platforms they'd be moving to. Loomer was pessimistic about her chances of being heard in the future. \"Looks like you guys will probably never hear from me again. It's only a matter of time before they ban me here too,\" Loomer \u003ca href=\"https://www.newsweek.com/laura-loomer-facebook-instagram-ban-kicked-deleted-1413210?utm_source=GoogleNewsstandUS&utm_medium=Feed&utm_campaign=Partnerships\">wrote\u003c/a> on Instagram. \"Thank you for all your support. But I guess it's time for me to go to the gulag.\" She added \"#StopTheBias,\" a hashtag she has embraced to protest what \u003ca href=\"https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/facebook-anti-conservative-bias-solution/\">some conservatives perceive\u003c/a> as bias on the big social media platforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, Facebook \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/03/20/705021469/facebook-apologizes-for-banning-trumps-social-media-director\">temporarily banned\u003c/a> comments by President Trump's social media director, Dan Scavino, after his postings were flagged by an algorithm. A Facebook spokesperson apologized, explaining that Scavino was banned because he had tagged so many people in his comments that automated bots thought he was a spammer. \"I will be looking into this!\" Trump \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1108028566791471104\">tweeted\u003c/a> about Scavino's ban, adding: \"#StopTheBias.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the six individuals have been banned from the site, \"users may still praise those figures on Instagram and share content related to them that doesn't violate other Instagram and Facebook terms of service,\" according to reporting in \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/05/instagram-and-facebook-ban-far-right-extremists/588607/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=atlantic-daily-newsletter&utm_content=20190502&silverid-ref=MzQ1NzMxMzI0NzI3S0\">The Atlantic\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Phone addiction has become a full-on crisis, with \u003ca href=\"http://digitaldetox.org/retreats/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">detox camps\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbc.ca/doczone/m_features/data-detox-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">phone apps\u003c/a> designed to disconnect us from around-the-clock technology. Former techies are jumping into the mix, too, crafting encore careers as technology activists urging Silicon Valley companies to make their products less addictive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the growing list of “thought leaders” is the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://humanetech.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Center for Humane Technology\u003c/a>. On Tuesday, co-founder and director Tristan Harris shared his new agenda with journalists and supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' align='right' citation='Tristan Harris of the Center for Humane Technology']‘We’re getting free social isolation, free downgrading of attention spans … free is the most expensive business model we’ve ever created.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of saying, let’s just compete for attention, let’s change the currency,” the ex-Googler said. “Let’s make the currency something closer to Time Well Spent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Well_Spent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Time Well Spent\u003c/a> movement is one Harris helped to lead. 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He suggested that if users were willing to pay for social media subscriptions, companies might be encouraged to compete for something other than their attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Mendocino, a different type of tech activism is underway at a digital detox facility called \u003ca href=\"https://campgrounded.org/\">Camp Grounded\u003c/a>. There, tech refugees trade in their cellphones and computers in exchange for activities like archery, crochet, and, “laughter yoga.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Awaiting them when they return are a whole host of new self-control products and features meant to limit screen time. \u003ca href=\"https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stayfocusd/laankejkbhbdhmipfmgcngdelahlfoji?hl=en\">StayFocusd\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://freedom.to/?utm_source=zapier.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=zapier\">Freedom\u003c/a> stop people from accessing “time-wasting websites” after a specified amount of daily use, while \u003ca href=\"https://www.mindfulbrowsing.org/?utm_source=zapier.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=zapier\">Mindful Browsing\u003c/a> gently urges people to do something more productive if they try to open, say, a social media app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But is this tech detox helping?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewinternet.org/2018/08/22/how-teens-and-parents-navigate-screen-time-and-device-distractions/\">Pew Research Center survey last year\u003c/a>, 54% of teenagers in the U.S. said they spend too much time in front of screens, but researchers noted that didn’t mean they tried to limit their time on them: “There is little association between teens’ views of how much time they spend on various screens and whether or not they have tried to limit their time on those devices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the allure of digital detox, it’s unclear whether giving up one’s phone for a weekend or checking how much time is spent online affects our use of technology moving forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside the tech industry, skeptical voices have emerged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='silicon-valley' label='More coverage of the Silicon Valley']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an \u003ca href=\"https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/digital-detox-big-techs-phony-crisis-of-conscience/#!\">article in the Los Angeles Review of Books\u003c/a>, writer Grafton Tanner voiced doubt that the answer to tech addiction could be found from within the tech industry itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their solutions — designing ethical technologies and creating labor unions for the digital age — completely ignore the fact that technology has never succeeded in achieving utopia and probably never will,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford University lecturer \u003ca href=\"http://www.jennyodell.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jenny Odell\u003c/a>, author of the new book “How to Do Nothing,” said she thinks the Center for Humane Technology is still trapped in the mindset that human lives are like products — ones that can be optimized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like things like Time Well Spent — while they very well may free up time for someone and that probably would be helpful for them — doesn’t touch assumptions like time is money, and doesn’t touch the idea that a life can be optimized,” Odell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Odell urges people to be more present to the world around them as a replacement for the allure of their screens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s no longer about putting the phone down,” she said. “I’m just more interested in something else that happens to be right in front of me. There’s so much detail in physical reality — there’s just so much to look at.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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