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Street Roots • September 22-28, 2017 Page 11 News BIG TECH, from page 9 pose anticompetitive concerns that the consumer welfare framework in antitrust fails to recognize.” Ultimately, she argues, we need to replace the current framework with a new framework that will maintain competitive process and market structure in a way that applies to these new business models. Foer weighs the options. On one hand, he said, “you could accept their bigness as a fact, and then apply regulations to make sure that their bigness isn’t turned against the public good, and that’s the utility model.” But, he said, “I think that there’s a lot of complexities that come with the public utilities model of having government so deeply embedded in some of these companies, just because the nature of what they do has so many political implications. It’s easy to imagine if the government were involved in regulating, say Google, that it could lead to no good. It could lead to One of the dangers Is that II machines become government exerting itself in a bad sort of way. “And then there’s the second approach, where you so deeply Im planted say bigness is not natural, and we don’t want to have 1» oar m eatal actlvl- massive concentrations, and we need to take a hammer ties* thereFs aa extent and a stake to these companies and break them into to w hich we as humans smaller pieces,” he said. “I tend now to favor the idea of breaking companies up and creating a more cease to h a w control competitive marketplace so I tend to favor the idea of oner onr own thonght de-concentrating the industries.” processes? and yon doa^t U .S . lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have even h a w I© b e llo w la shown interest in solving the “bigness” problem, an extreme scl-ll w r - introducing legislation that would protect consumer data privacy and calling for antitrust enforcement. Sion of this to be freak- In the meantime, Foer said, there are steps lap rig h t now« 1 th in k consumers can take to establish detachment and we can Jast look at the maintain free will. qaestion of privacy* “We need to be a little bit prouder and a bit more snobbish about what we read,” he said, adding that we should approach what we put in our brains in the same way farmers market and Whole Foods shoppers approach what they put in their bodies. (Amazon bought Whole Foods in August.) “But it’s really important that we carve out space to be independent thinkers. Where we’re not being notified all the time and distracted. Where we’re not umbilically connected to a company store,” he said. “To carve out the spaces where we can contemplate things. I think our politics suffers from our lack of contemplation, where we have just accepted the fact that citizens are going to get fed crap information that’s going to lead them to make bad decisions. It’s true for all of us. These companies are trying to monopolize our attention, they’re trying to addict us to their sites and to their products, but we just can t permit that to e Never Judge A Book by Its Cover (or) The One Who Gave Me Life by Leo Rhodes Life goes on I never really met you Sometimes I wish I did There’s so many unanswered questions The love we could have shared Or maybe we did Our dreams, our successes Might have brought us closer Our struggles could have brought us together as one I could still hear your yelling and screaming As I waited outside of your house Your words shredded my heart into small pieces Your words stomped on my heart, like you put out a cigar You were true to your word “You didn’t want to know me” “You didn’t want to have anything to do with me” Cause you’re dead now The one who gave me life perspectives by j.mccurdy the only difference between beautiful and terrifying are camera angles and lighting the totality of our life and existence.” emily@streetroots. org FARMERS’ MARKET ¿¿pie’s 1 WEDNESDAYS 2-7PM A FOOD CO-OP C E N T R A L C IT Y COFFEE 2)\uikuielL. S ^ goad. Sourcing & roasting craft coffee to nefit programs at Central City Concern. IN STORES New Seasons Market, Whole Foods, Food Front Cooperative Grocery, Green Zebra, Chuck's Produce, Food Fight!, Cherry Sprout Produce, and Know Thy Food. AT YOUR OFFICE Interested in serving Central City Coffee at your office? Get in touch with us and we can help you make that happen. 503.226.7387 ON OUR WEBSITE Buy Central City Coffee online and have It shipped directly to you or a friend. AT KASBAH MOROCCAN CAFE We-re passionate about helping our community a rrp « healthy food that they can trust. By shopping m i s . > '™ " i « ,° ° i ” w" Get your espresso favorites at Old Town s newest spot (201 NW Davis Street), featuring Central City Coffee! Follow our Facebook page for updates and specials. supporting local farmers and community. cf 91st Ave. btwn Powell & Division centralctycoffee.org facebook.com/CentralCityCoffee coffee@ccconcern.org
