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offices, according to the filings under the state’s Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, also known as WARN. But it’s unclear which departments or projects the employees were involved in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment early Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cupertino company had been a notable exception as other tech companies slashed their workforces over the past two years. There was a massive surge in hiring during the COVID-19 pandemic, when people spent more time and money online, and big tech companies are still larger than before the pandemic. Still, as growth slows, companies are focusing on cutting costs. [aside postID=news_11979609 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-GAMEINDUSTRY-JY-003-KQED-1020x680.jpg']In a recent regulatory filing, Apple said it had about 161,000 full-time equivalent employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, Amazon announced a \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/amazon-aws-layoffs-cloud-a26feee15793a65dca046b99e780943e#:~:text=In%20addition%20to%20the%20physical,as%20well%20as%20sales%20operations.\">fresh round of layoffs\u003c/a>, this time at its cloud computing business AWS. In recent months, video game maker \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/electronic-arts-layoffs-sony-microsoft-8725a896ccbd19c324b48f8c69981677\">Electronic Arts\u003c/a> said it’s cutting about 5% of its workforce, \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/sony-interactive-jobs-playstation-1f85ae1c0bdda667bd59ee87ac912000\">Sony\u003c/a> said it is axing about 900 jobs in its PlayStation division, \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/cisco-systems-layoffs-technology-trend-artificial-intelligence-28dc2ba343f65151c2187fd3f446ee7e\">Cisco Systems\u003c/a> revealed plans to lay off more than 4,000 workers and social media company Snap, owner of \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/snapchat-snap-layoffs-tech-b67df4deb437af7fc1612425a379cdd4\">Snapchat\u003c/a>, announced it is slashing 10% of its global workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"On March 28, the iPhone maker notified 614 employees across 8 Santa Clara offices that they were losing their jobs. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1712340093,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":8,"wordCount":300},"headData":{"title":"Apple Cuts Over 600 California Workers in First Post-Pandemic Layoff Wave | KQED","description":"On March 28, the iPhone maker notified 614 employees across 8 Santa Clara offices that they were losing their jobs. 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But it’s unclear which departments or projects the employees were involved in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment early Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cupertino company had been a notable exception as other tech companies slashed their workforces over the past two years. There was a massive surge in hiring during the COVID-19 pandemic, when people spent more time and money online, and big tech companies are still larger than before the pandemic. Still, as growth slows, companies are focusing on cutting costs. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11979609","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-GAMEINDUSTRY-JY-003-KQED-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In a recent regulatory filing, Apple said it had about 161,000 full-time equivalent employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, Amazon announced a \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/amazon-aws-layoffs-cloud-a26feee15793a65dca046b99e780943e#:~:text=In%20addition%20to%20the%20physical,as%20well%20as%20sales%20operations.\">fresh round of layoffs\u003c/a>, this time at its cloud computing business AWS. In recent months, video game maker \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/electronic-arts-layoffs-sony-microsoft-8725a896ccbd19c324b48f8c69981677\">Electronic Arts\u003c/a> said it’s cutting about 5% of its workforce, \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/sony-interactive-jobs-playstation-1f85ae1c0bdda667bd59ee87ac912000\">Sony\u003c/a> said it is axing about 900 jobs in its PlayStation division, \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/cisco-systems-layoffs-technology-trend-artificial-intelligence-28dc2ba343f65151c2187fd3f446ee7e\">Cisco Systems\u003c/a> revealed plans to lay off more than 4,000 workers and social media company Snap, owner of \u003ca style=\"font-weight: var(--font-weight-reg)\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/snapchat-snap-layoffs-tech-b67df4deb437af7fc1612425a379cdd4\">Snapchat\u003c/a>, announced it is slashing 10% of its global workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11982005/apple-cuts-over-600-california-workers-in-first-post-pandemic-layoff-wave","authors":["byline_news_11982005"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_19182","news_26334","news_352","news_1749","news_5745","news_1631"],"featImg":"news_11982008","label":"news"},"news_11980271":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11980271","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11980271","score":null,"sort":[1711041377000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"apple-faces-lawsuit-from-us-for-abusing-monopoly-power-in-smartphone-industry","title":"Apple Sued by Feds and 16 States for Abusing Monopoly Power in Smartphone Industry","publishDate":1711041377,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Apple Sued by Feds and 16 States for Abusing Monopoly Power in Smartphone Industry | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":253,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Apple, one of the world’s richest companies, is now under fire from the U.S. government. The Department of Justice and 16 states filed a lawsuit against the Silicon Valley giant on Thursday, accusing the company of abusing its power as a monopoly to edge out rivals and ensure customers keep using its products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The heart of the lawsuit centers around claims that Apple stopped smaller companies from accessing the hardware and software in its iPhones, which led to fewer options for customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple is worth nearly $3 trillion, making it one of the highest-valued companies in the world. And its iPhone is one of the most popular phones on earth, dominating the global market, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS51776424\">market analyst firm IDC\u003c/a>. The Justice Department alleges it’s by no coincidence that Apple was able to ensure its place at the top.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco\"]‘No matter how powerful, no matter how prominent, no matter how popular — no company is above the law.’[/pullquote]“Consumers should not have to pay higher prices because companies violate the antitrust laws,” Attorney General Merrick B. Garland says. “If left unchallenged, Apple will only continue to strengthen its smartphone monopoly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Justice Department says that because Apple imposes contract restrictions on developers, it means new innovation is kept within its ecosystem. The government says this allows Apple to take more money from consumers, developers, content creators, publishers, small businesses and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of these restrictions, the Justice Department says Apple has been able to block innovation in super apps with a broad functionality and has ensured its iMessage system keeps people from using cross-platform messaging apps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11896177\" label=\"Related Story\"]The government also says that Apple has thrown around its power to suppress innovation in streaming services for video games, non-Apple smartwatches, and third-party digital wallets that let users tap-to-pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple says the restrictions around its software and hardware are to protect people’s privacy and security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This lawsuit threatens who we are and the principles that set Apple products apart in fiercely competitive markets,” a company spokesperson says. “If successful, it would hinder our ability to create the kind of technology people expect from Apple—where hardware, software, and services intersect. It would also set a dangerous precedent, empowering government to take a heavy hand in designing people’s technology.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple says it will vigorously defend itself against this lawsuit. In the lead-up to the suit, Apple reportedly met with Justice Department officials multiple times, according to the \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/05/technology/antitrust-apple-lawsuit-us.html?partner=slack&smid=sl-share\">New York Times\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the Biden administration, the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission have filed antitrust lawsuits against several leading tech companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Justice \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/09/12/1198558372/doj-google-monopoly-antitrust-trial-search-engine\">went to trial against Google parent Alphabet\u003c/a> last fall over allegations that it stomped out competing search engines. The FTC is working on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/09/26/1191099421/amazon-ftc-lawsuit-antitrust-monopoly\">massive suit against Amazon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the third lawsuit the Justice Department has brought against Apple over antitrust violations in the past two decades. European regulators have also targeted the company over anti-competitive behavior, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-04/apple-hit-with-1-8-billion-eu-fine-over-abusive-app-store-rules\">claims of boxing out rivals\u003c/a> with its music streaming service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No matter how powerful, no matter how prominent, no matter how popular — no company is above the law,” Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2024 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=The+U.S.+sues+Apple%2C+saying+it+abuses+its+power+to+monopolize+the+smartphone+market&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The federal government accuses Apple of using its monopoly power to stomp out competitors and keep customers from switching phones.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1711061117,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":586},"headData":{"title":"Apple Sued by Feds and 16 States for Abusing Monopoly Power in Smartphone Industry | KQED","description":"The federal government accuses Apple of using its monopoly power to stomp out competitors and keep customers from switching phones.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"nprImageCredit":"Drew Angerer","nprByline":"Dara Kerr","nprImageAgency":"Getty Images","nprStoryId":"1239802162","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=1239802162&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2024/03/21/1239802162/apple-iphone-doj-monopoly-antitrust-lawsuit?ft=nprml&f=1239802162","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Thu, 21 Mar 2024 12:15:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Thu, 21 Mar 2024 10:29:34 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Thu, 21 Mar 2024 12:15:17 -0400","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11980271/apple-faces-lawsuit-from-us-for-abusing-monopoly-power-in-smartphone-industry","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Apple, one of the world’s richest companies, is now under fire from the U.S. government. The Department of Justice and 16 states filed a lawsuit against the Silicon Valley giant on Thursday, accusing the company of abusing its power as a monopoly to edge out rivals and ensure customers keep using its products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The heart of the lawsuit centers around claims that Apple stopped smaller companies from accessing the hardware and software in its iPhones, which led to fewer options for customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple is worth nearly $3 trillion, making it one of the highest-valued companies in the world. And its iPhone is one of the most popular phones on earth, dominating the global market, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS51776424\">market analyst firm IDC\u003c/a>. 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The government says this allows Apple to take more money from consumers, developers, content creators, publishers, small businesses and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of these restrictions, the Justice Department says Apple has been able to block innovation in super apps with a broad functionality and has ensured its iMessage system keeps people from using cross-platform messaging apps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11896177","label":"Related Story "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The government also says that Apple has thrown around its power to suppress innovation in streaming services for video games, non-Apple smartwatches, and third-party digital wallets that let users tap-to-pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple says the restrictions around its software and hardware are to protect people’s privacy and security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This lawsuit threatens who we are and the principles that set Apple products apart in fiercely competitive markets,” a company spokesperson says. “If successful, it would hinder our ability to create the kind of technology people expect from Apple—where hardware, software, and services intersect. It would also set a dangerous precedent, empowering government to take a heavy hand in designing people’s technology.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple says it will vigorously defend itself against this lawsuit. In the lead-up to the suit, Apple reportedly met with Justice Department officials multiple times, according to the \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/05/technology/antitrust-apple-lawsuit-us.html?partner=slack&smid=sl-share\">New York Times\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the Biden administration, the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission have filed antitrust lawsuits against several leading tech companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Justice \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/09/12/1198558372/doj-google-monopoly-antitrust-trial-search-engine\">went to trial against Google parent Alphabet\u003c/a> last fall over allegations that it stomped out competing search engines. 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While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra, and welcome to the Bay local news to keep you rooted. And it is time for our monthly news roundup, where I sit down with the rest of the Bay team and talk about some of the other stories that we’ve been following in the month of February. I’m joined by our producer, Maria Esquinca. What’s up Maria?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>Hello. Happy to be here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And our senior editor, Alan Montecillo. Hey, Alan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Hey. Happy belated year of the Dragon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yes. Happy belated Lunar New Year to you both. A just, I guess, a check in. How are we feeling at this point of the year?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>I feel like February is usually the doldrums. Certainly it’s been a cloudy and rainy few weeks. I think we’re just trying to get through the rainy weather while also gearing up for the primary on March 5th.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yeah, and honestly, I don’t know. I’m ready for spring. I did step outside my door the other day and it like, smells like spring. But I think we have some more rain coming this week. But I hope you have enjoyed the sunshine lately. Maria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>Yeah, I think we’ve had like an interesting start to the year, but I’m excited for, warmer weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, yes, spring is coming. The election is coming, and today some of the stories we’ll be discussing are definitely election related, including yours, Alan, out of the South Bay. I’ll start with you. What story have you been following this month?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Yes. So the California primary is on March 5th. Everyone should have received their ballots by now. There’s a great voter guide at KQED, Dawgs Voter Guide, and I wanted to talk about a local race in Silicon Valley, specifically the race for state Assembly in District 23. So that includes Palo Alto, Mountain View and West San Jose. And it’s a race that could serve as a bit of a referendum on the state’s swing towards building more housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, can you talk a little bit more, Alan, about who’s running for this seat?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>There are four candidates, two Democrats, two Republicans. District 23 is a very Democratic district. You know, since this is a primary, the top two advance to the November election regardless of party. So you could have two Democrats, one Republican, one Democrat. But I think the reason why this race is interesting is because you have a local Democrat challenging a Democratic incumbent. This doesn’t happen all that often. I think in Democratic politics there’s very much a kind of wait your turn kind of energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>But the main two Democrats that our colleague Guy Mercer said he wanted to focus on is Palo Alto City Council member Lydia Koo, who is challenging the incumbent Assembly member, Mark Berman. And actually, guy’s story starts with this town hall meeting in Palo Alto at a community center. And there’s a big sign there that’s called Town Hall to save our neighborhoods. And the person leading that town hall, the person hosting that event was Palo Alto City Council member Lydia Kou.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lydia Kou: \u003c/strong>My name is Lydia Kou. I am council member and former mayor of Palo Alto, and I’m running for state assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>So Lydia Kou is a city council member from Palo Alto, which has the largest block of voters in the 23rd district. And she is part of a coalition of voters in Palo Alto who are really angry at the state for making it easier to build more housing and for reducing the power of cities to block development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lydia Kou: \u003c/strong>Their voices are being diminished or eliminated through these housing laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>And Councilmember Kou isn’t shy about saying what she thinks. You know, when when asked about whether 23rd district can put off building new housing because of the number of jobs that have come to the region, she said, well, why do all those jobs need to be here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lydia Kou: \u003c/strong>Diversify. Make some incentives for companies to have their headquarters, other places versus just all gathered here. Why is it only focused on Mountain View in Palo Alto?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>So that is a pretty bold move from Lydia Kou to run against an incumbent. I’m curious what Mark Burman is saying in response. How is he responding to her?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>So Assembly Member Marc Berman has been in office since about 2016, and he has joined many Democrats in the state legislature in pushing for basically a stronger, firmer approach from the state and saying to local cities and towns, hey, you need to get on board with building new housing. You know, he says, we have a housing shortage. We have a huge imbalance of housing and jobs here in Silicon Valley. We’ve done a terrible job in Silicon Valley of creating the housing we need to house all the people that are taking those jobs, and that’s just been pushed down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>On the folks that can least afford it. He even says to that. It’s not just that the state should create more incentives for more housing development. The state needs to also be tough on cities that are pushing back. We want to provide them as many carrots as possible, but for decades there has been no stick. I think it will be a test to see how strong this anti development coalition in Palo Alto has gotten. And if there’s a real backlash to this sort of, you know, yimby pro housing turn that the state has been taking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Sweet will we’ll be watching that race in March. Thanks so much, Alan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And after the break, we’ll discuss my story and Maria’s…Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And welcome back to the base news roundup for the month of February. We’re going to get right back into it with producer Maria Esquinca:. Maria, what story have you been following this month?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>Yeah. So a story that I’ve been following is about Reverend Wanda Johnson. She is Oscar Grant’s mother. Most people are probably familiar with the case of Oscar Grant. He was a 22 year old black man that was shot by a Bart police officer on New Year’s Day 2009, and his death resulted in a lot of outrage. And after 15 years of asking the DA’s office for Oscar Grant’s cell phones, she finally got them back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Why has it taken so long?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>So, according to transcend, she said that she made repeated requests to the district attorney’s office for the cell phones. And what was told to her was that the phones were mixed in with other evidence around the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reverand Wanda Johnson: \u003c/strong>And so they didn’t know which phones. Was head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>And Reverend Wanda Johnson, Oscar Grant’s mother, talked about this at a press conference with the current Alameda County District attorney, Pamela Price:, who returned the phones to Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pamela Price: \u003c/strong>There was no challenge finding the phones. We know which phones they that actually belong to Oscar Grant, which phones were cataloged appropriately. It was apparently an act of will not to return the phone after.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>And based off the reporting of Oscar Palma, who reported on this for KQED, he did reach out to former District Attorney Nancy O’Malley, who said no one ever asked her about the phones and that members of her team never brought this issue up to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And Maria, can you maybe help give us a sense of why this is such a big deal for Wanda Johnson? How does she talk about why this moment 15 years later, is so important to her?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>She really talked about how these cell phones almost seem like an extension of Oscar Grant, and I think she really talked about wanting to have these cell phones because of the pictures in them, because there was pictures of Oscar Grant. It was clear from listening to her at the press conference, so she was elated that she was very happy. She talked about how these phones represent another piece of her life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reverand Wanda Johnson: \u003c/strong>That is being fulfilled, that I have me having my son’s property, and that’s all families want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>All right. Well, Maria, thank you so much for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And last but not least, we’ll talk about my story, which is about how fast food chains are entering the business of local politics in San Jose. The San Jose Spotlight has been reporting on some pretty interesting examples of fast food companies doing all kinds of things. Politics in San Jose. From meeting with City Council members to donating to a bunch of political campaigns and PACs, and even hiring lobbyists to campaign against certain policies in the city, all, of course, in an election year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>So corporations spending money on politics, not really a new thing. But what do fast food companies want to accomplish in San Jose? Specifically, what are they pushing for?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, San Jose is one of two cities in California right now that is looking into a potential policy to essentially give more worker benefits to fast food workers. And in particular, it would allow fast food workers to accrue paid time off. These workers are really pushing, have been pushing in the last couple of years in California for more rights. And this issue is sort of taking center stage in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>So what are the companies that have been getting involved in this and how?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Burger King, the owner of several Popeyes locations, the owners of some McDonald’s and some Taco Bell locations have also donated to this PAC called the Strong Economy Silicon Valley PAC, which has been running some ads against certain candidates in the race for city council and also a number of new lobbyists, have sort of popped up in the city of San Jose tasked with trying to fight against this potential policy for fast food workers in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>So obviously, their funding or their yeah, they’re starting to put money into some of these races. How is this impacting local politics right now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So the San Jose Spotlight reported on this story from earlier this month about how the California Fast Food Workers Union, which was established also just this month, recently held a protest of San Jose City Council member David Cohen. He’s actually currently running for reelection in a really tight race. And the union was protesting because they argued that Cohen was basically walking back his support of this potential policy to expand fast food worker benefits in San Jose. He’s now saying that he’s skeptical about how to make this work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And the spotlight reports that he’s also one of the councilors who met with the fast food companies, in the last three months. Cohen says that he met with them to try and work out something for both sides. But the union believes that Cohen has sort of switched up his position, because of this tight reelection race that he’s in against Assembly member Kansen Chu. And actually, the strong economy Silicon Valley PAC, which is funded by a bunch of fast food corporations, has spent $18,000 on ads against Chu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Why do you think this story is happening in San Jose, specifically?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yeah, well, that’s a great question because there has been a pretty unprecedented labor organizing among fast food workers all around California. But the California Fast Food Workers Union, which again, just finally formed this month, has said that San Jose has one of the largest populations of fast food workers in California. And that is part of the reason why San Jose is one of only two cities in the state that are considering this policy that would increase benefits for fast food workers. And so I think this is an example of how the union plans to make more ground in other corners of the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>And you you’re if you’re the companies, I imagine you feel the same way that you want to defeat policies you don’t like, candidates you don’t like. On the local level before it snowballs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Well, that is it for the bays news roundup for the month of February. Maria and Alan, thank you both so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>The Bay is a production of listener supported KQED in San Francisco. And I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Thank you so much for listening to the Bay. 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While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra, and welcome to the Bay local news to keep you rooted. And it is time for our monthly news roundup, where I sit down with the rest of the Bay team and talk about some of the other stories that we’ve been following in the month of February. I’m joined by our producer, Maria Esquinca. What’s up Maria?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>Hello. Happy to be here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And our senior editor, Alan Montecillo. Hey, Alan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Hey. Happy belated year of the Dragon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yes. Happy belated Lunar New Year to you both. A just, I guess, a check in. How are we feeling at this point of the year?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>I feel like February is usually the doldrums. Certainly it’s been a cloudy and rainy few weeks. I think we’re just trying to get through the rainy weather while also gearing up for the primary on March 5th.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yeah, and honestly, I don’t know. I’m ready for spring. I did step outside my door the other day and it like, smells like spring. But I think we have some more rain coming this week. But I hope you have enjoyed the sunshine lately. Maria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>Yeah, I think we’ve had like an interesting start to the year, but I’m excited for, warmer weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, yes, spring is coming. The election is coming, and today some of the stories we’ll be discussing are definitely election related, including yours, Alan, out of the South Bay. I’ll start with you. What story have you been following this month?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Yes. So the California primary is on March 5th. Everyone should have received their ballots by now. There’s a great voter guide at KQED, Dawgs Voter Guide, and I wanted to talk about a local race in Silicon Valley, specifically the race for state Assembly in District 23. So that includes Palo Alto, Mountain View and West San Jose. And it’s a race that could serve as a bit of a referendum on the state’s swing towards building more housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, can you talk a little bit more, Alan, about who’s running for this seat?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>There are four candidates, two Democrats, two Republicans. District 23 is a very Democratic district. You know, since this is a primary, the top two advance to the November election regardless of party. So you could have two Democrats, one Republican, one Democrat. But I think the reason why this race is interesting is because you have a local Democrat challenging a Democratic incumbent. This doesn’t happen all that often. I think in Democratic politics there’s very much a kind of wait your turn kind of energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>But the main two Democrats that our colleague Guy Mercer said he wanted to focus on is Palo Alto City Council member Lydia Koo, who is challenging the incumbent Assembly member, Mark Berman. And actually, guy’s story starts with this town hall meeting in Palo Alto at a community center. And there’s a big sign there that’s called Town Hall to save our neighborhoods. And the person leading that town hall, the person hosting that event was Palo Alto City Council member Lydia Kou.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lydia Kou: \u003c/strong>My name is Lydia Kou. I am council member and former mayor of Palo Alto, and I’m running for state assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>So Lydia Kou is a city council member from Palo Alto, which has the largest block of voters in the 23rd district. And she is part of a coalition of voters in Palo Alto who are really angry at the state for making it easier to build more housing and for reducing the power of cities to block development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lydia Kou: \u003c/strong>Their voices are being diminished or eliminated through these housing laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>And Councilmember Kou isn’t shy about saying what she thinks. You know, when when asked about whether 23rd district can put off building new housing because of the number of jobs that have come to the region, she said, well, why do all those jobs need to be here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lydia Kou: \u003c/strong>Diversify. Make some incentives for companies to have their headquarters, other places versus just all gathered here. Why is it only focused on Mountain View in Palo Alto?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>So that is a pretty bold move from Lydia Kou to run against an incumbent. I’m curious what Mark Burman is saying in response. How is he responding to her?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>So Assembly Member Marc Berman has been in office since about 2016, and he has joined many Democrats in the state legislature in pushing for basically a stronger, firmer approach from the state and saying to local cities and towns, hey, you need to get on board with building new housing. You know, he says, we have a housing shortage. We have a huge imbalance of housing and jobs here in Silicon Valley. We’ve done a terrible job in Silicon Valley of creating the housing we need to house all the people that are taking those jobs, and that’s just been pushed down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>On the folks that can least afford it. He even says to that. It’s not just that the state should create more incentives for more housing development. The state needs to also be tough on cities that are pushing back. We want to provide them as many carrots as possible, but for decades there has been no stick. I think it will be a test to see how strong this anti development coalition in Palo Alto has gotten. And if there’s a real backlash to this sort of, you know, yimby pro housing turn that the state has been taking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Sweet will we’ll be watching that race in March. Thanks so much, Alan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And after the break, we’ll discuss my story and Maria’s…Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And welcome back to the base news roundup for the month of February. We’re going to get right back into it with producer Maria Esquinca:. Maria, what story have you been following this month?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>Yeah. So a story that I’ve been following is about Reverend Wanda Johnson. She is Oscar Grant’s mother. Most people are probably familiar with the case of Oscar Grant. He was a 22 year old black man that was shot by a Bart police officer on New Year’s Day 2009, and his death resulted in a lot of outrage. And after 15 years of asking the DA’s office for Oscar Grant’s cell phones, she finally got them back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Why has it taken so long?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>So, according to transcend, she said that she made repeated requests to the district attorney’s office for the cell phones. And what was told to her was that the phones were mixed in with other evidence around the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reverand Wanda Johnson: \u003c/strong>And so they didn’t know which phones. Was head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>And Reverend Wanda Johnson, Oscar Grant’s mother, talked about this at a press conference with the current Alameda County District attorney, Pamela Price:, who returned the phones to Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pamela Price: \u003c/strong>There was no challenge finding the phones. We know which phones they that actually belong to Oscar Grant, which phones were cataloged appropriately. It was apparently an act of will not to return the phone after.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>And based off the reporting of Oscar Palma, who reported on this for KQED, he did reach out to former District Attorney Nancy O’Malley, who said no one ever asked her about the phones and that members of her team never brought this issue up to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And Maria, can you maybe help give us a sense of why this is such a big deal for Wanda Johnson? How does she talk about why this moment 15 years later, is so important to her?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>She really talked about how these cell phones almost seem like an extension of Oscar Grant, and I think she really talked about wanting to have these cell phones because of the pictures in them, because there was pictures of Oscar Grant. It was clear from listening to her at the press conference, so she was elated that she was very happy. She talked about how these phones represent another piece of her life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reverand Wanda Johnson: \u003c/strong>That is being fulfilled, that I have me having my son’s property, and that’s all families want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>All right. Well, Maria, thank you so much for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And last but not least, we’ll talk about my story, which is about how fast food chains are entering the business of local politics in San Jose. The San Jose Spotlight has been reporting on some pretty interesting examples of fast food companies doing all kinds of things. Politics in San Jose. From meeting with City Council members to donating to a bunch of political campaigns and PACs, and even hiring lobbyists to campaign against certain policies in the city, all, of course, in an election year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>So corporations spending money on politics, not really a new thing. But what do fast food companies want to accomplish in San Jose? Specifically, what are they pushing for?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, San Jose is one of two cities in California right now that is looking into a potential policy to essentially give more worker benefits to fast food workers. And in particular, it would allow fast food workers to accrue paid time off. These workers are really pushing, have been pushing in the last couple of years in California for more rights. And this issue is sort of taking center stage in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>So what are the companies that have been getting involved in this and how?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Burger King, the owner of several Popeyes locations, the owners of some McDonald’s and some Taco Bell locations have also donated to this PAC called the Strong Economy Silicon Valley PAC, which has been running some ads against certain candidates in the race for city council and also a number of new lobbyists, have sort of popped up in the city of San Jose tasked with trying to fight against this potential policy for fast food workers in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>So obviously, their funding or their yeah, they’re starting to put money into some of these races. How is this impacting local politics right now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So the San Jose Spotlight reported on this story from earlier this month about how the California Fast Food Workers Union, which was established also just this month, recently held a protest of San Jose City Council member David Cohen. He’s actually currently running for reelection in a really tight race. And the union was protesting because they argued that Cohen was basically walking back his support of this potential policy to expand fast food worker benefits in San Jose. He’s now saying that he’s skeptical about how to make this work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And the spotlight reports that he’s also one of the councilors who met with the fast food companies, in the last three months. Cohen says that he met with them to try and work out something for both sides. But the union believes that Cohen has sort of switched up his position, because of this tight reelection race that he’s in against Assembly member Kansen Chu. And actually, the strong economy Silicon Valley PAC, which is funded by a bunch of fast food corporations, has spent $18,000 on ads against Chu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Why do you think this story is happening in San Jose, specifically?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yeah, well, that’s a great question because there has been a pretty unprecedented labor organizing among fast food workers all around California. But the California Fast Food Workers Union, which again, just finally formed this month, has said that San Jose has one of the largest populations of fast food workers in California. And that is part of the reason why San Jose is one of only two cities in the state that are considering this policy that would increase benefits for fast food workers. And so I think this is an example of how the union plans to make more ground in other corners of the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>And you you’re if you’re the companies, I imagine you feel the same way that you want to defeat policies you don’t like, candidates you don’t like. On the local level before it snowballs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Well, that is it for the bays news roundup for the month of February. Maria and Alan, thank you both so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>The Bay is a production of listener supported KQED in San Francisco. And I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Thank you so much for listening to the Bay. Talk to you next time.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11977234/february-news-roundup-a-silicon-valley-assembly-race-oscar-grants-mother-gets-his-phones-back-and-fast-food-politics","authors":["8654","11802","11649","11898"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_19182","news_2704","news_551","news_22598"],"featImg":"news_11639691","label":"source_news_11977234"},"news_11976969":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11976969","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11976969","score":null,"sort":[1708945229000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"a-growing-right-to-repair-culture-in-california","title":"A Growing ‘Right to Repair’ Culture in California","publishDate":1708945229,"format":"audio","headTitle":"A Growing ‘Right to Repair’ Culture in California | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cdiv class=\"c-message_kit__blocks c-message_kit__blocks--rich_text\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"c-message__message_blocks c-message__message_blocks--rich_text\" data-qa=\"message-text\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"p-block_kit_renderer\" data-qa=\"block-kit-renderer\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"p-block_kit_renderer__block_wrapper p-block_kit_renderer__block_wrapper--first\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"p-rich_text_block\" dir=\"auto\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"p-rich_text_section\">\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>View the full episode transcript.\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>When one of your appliances or electronics breaks, do you buy a new one or try to fix it yourself?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manufacturers have made it hard for consumers to fix their own stuff. But people have been pushing back in what’s called the “right to repair” movement. KQED’s Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman takes us to a “Fixit clinic” in Redwood City, where people learn how to fix their broken items.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC9641462784\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra, and welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. So lately, I’ve been watching my boyfriend deal with a messed up laptop, which is less than a year old. First, he spent at least an hour on the phone with someone from Dell. Then he had to buy a USB drive for some software thing I couldn’t really understand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Anyway, neither thing solved his problem. Finally, a Dell employee came to his house and actually, that didn’t solve his problem either. So at this point, fixing his laptop has become so inconvenient that it feels like the only reasonable solution would be to just buy a new laptop. But this disposable culture doesn’t have to be the norm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Mui: \u003c/strong>Well, there’s so much stuff in our built environment that’s easily fixable, and people don’t even think that repair is possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>This year, a new right to repair law will go into effect in California, and that’ll help make it easier for everyday people to fix their own stuff. Today, KQED reporter Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman tells us about a growing right to repair movement and takes us inside one fix it clinic in Redwood City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>So I went to a fix it clinic at the Redwood City Library…Walking in there? I mean, it’s this really kind of fun environment. It’s a little bit chaotic, but it’s very high energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>There’s about a dozen and a half tables there, and they’ve got all sorts of appliances, electronics. Vacuums, fans, air purifiers, and they’re sort of splayed open. And there’s a fix it coach, which is essentially a volunteer alongside people who have brought these items in. And they’re got their sleeves rolled up and they’re digging in and they’re trying to diagnose and fix whatever’s wrong with the thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Fix it. Clinics are sort of these pop up events. They’re facilitated by volunteers. And these volunteers are basically handy people who are down to spend a Saturday morning helping people fix their things. And the kind of people that are coming in are just everyday people. And they have something, an appliance, an electronic that they really like, but it’s broken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Fix it coaches are basically standing over your shoulder and telling you what to do, and then the person who brings in the item is performing the repair mostly themselves. So it’s really much more of an educational opportunity than just sort of a repair service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And you mentioned this is primarily run by volunteers. Who exactly is running these clinics?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>So Peter Mui started, Fix It clinic back in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Mui: \u003c/strong>It’s incumbent on us at this point in the planet to keep all of our durable goods in service in place as long as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Since then, it’s grown immensely. And now this year, Fix It clinic has partnered with the San Mateo County Office of Sustainability to bring a fix it clinic to a different San Mateo County library every month this year. And so, is this your job?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Mui: \u003c/strong>No. This is this is a passion. Now, fix a clinic is a hobby of mine that’s gotten way out of control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, I know you talked with some folks there who were there to get their stuff fixed. Can you tell me about Nancy Harris?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Yeah. So, Nancy Harris lives in Moss Beach, which is about 25 miles away. It’s on the coast. And she brought in this magic bullet blender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nancy Harris: \u003c/strong>And I’m so tired of buying a new one. I would love to fix this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Schmitt: \u003c/strong>All right, let’s see. I’ve worked on one of the bigger ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>This was actually the fourth magic bullet blender that she’s owned. As she walked in, she was matched with this volunteer named Alex Schmitt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>And Alex Schmitt lives in the county. Works in software. Says he likes to tinker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Schmitt: \u003c/strong>There is one of these that the tabs may have broken off. And it looks like there may be jams. Oh. So.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>So, Nancy basically described the problem. When she plugs it in, the motor of the blender just starts whirring immediately, and she can’t get it to turn off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nancy Harris: \u003c/strong>When you’ve got it plugged in, it’s supposed to not immediately start, but start when you put the top on and screw it and you’re ready to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Alex says, okay, well, let’s let’s take a look. And within a few minutes, really, he diagnoses the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Schmitt: \u003c/strong>So now the question is, will it spin the way that you’re having the issue with. Yeah it will. Okay. You mentioned it leaks. Yes. So whatever whatever leaked in there has sort of gummed up these plastic elements that depress the switch on the bottom to the point that they got stuck on the lower end. And so it was always on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>So the all of the gunk, all of the smoothie and coffee and all the things that Nancy Harris has blended over the past few years has sort of seeped down into this switch that activates the motor. So it was actually diagnosed really quickly and simply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Schmitt: \u003c/strong>And that would do it for you. But the big thing is cleaning, and I’m guessing we have some Q-tips and some alcohol that we can work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Okay. Did she get it fixed?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Yeah. So it took her and Alex Schmitt about an hour to fix the blender, and it did end up getting fixed. Basically, it just needed to be cleaned. They really just went in there with cotton swabs and rubbing alcohol and sort of freed up all the sticky stuff that was making the motor stuck in the on position. They even found like a small family of bugs living in the motor. So there’s all these little discoveries that they make along the way. And.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, what happened when Nancy and Alex got the magic bullet working again?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>As Nancy Harris walked out with her fixed to working magic bullet blender, volunteers took the magic bullet blender, held it aloft and yelled, you know, magic bullet blender fixed. Nancy Harris, she said she was overjoyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nancy Harris: \u003c/strong>We fixed something that had been broken and driving me crazy for at least a year and a half. It just saved me a lot of time and energy, and I learned how to fix it myself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>You know, you could really see this, like, sort of contagious look of excitement and happiness. And that’s kind of shared by the whole room when you know something gets fixed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nancy Harris: \u003c/strong>It’s not saves you, what, 100, $200 every couple of years when this happens again, I’m really, really, really happy about it. And I feel very empowered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming up, how exactly have manufacturers made it harder for us to fix our own stuff? Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>It does for some reason, also feel like a thing of the past. Like this idea that we as consumers can fix things ourselves. Like, I mean, I’m just thinking also about my partner’s laptop, which he’s been trying to get fixed for like the past two weeks. And at this point he’s like, God, I should just buy a new laptop at this point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Yeah. I mean, what you’re talking about is what’s called a repair monopoly. Basically, a manufacturer will, you know, not make their parts or tools or information necessary to repair their item accessible to consumers, basically forcing people to have to go to them to, get their thing repaired. Some companies will use, like, proprietary screw heads to put their devices together, or they’re not designed to be serviced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>There’s even something called parts pairing with electronics, where parts are paired to the serial number of your, say, computer. And if you put in a different part, it will throw an error code when you know you try to turn it back on. There’s also this idea of planned obsolescence, right, where, you know, companies are basically making things to break because it’s more profitable for them to sell you something new as opposed to have you repair it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>So, you know, manufacturers make it harder to repair their things, which means that your local shop can’t repair them. So then there’s, you know, these shops go out of business, and pretty soon the only place you can get the thing repaired is the company that made it. They can charge whatever they want, they can take as long as they want, or they can tell you it’s not able to be repaired, even if maybe it is, and force you to buy a new one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, how then is all have people actually tried to combat this disposable culture, this culture of buying new? On a larger scale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Over the past decade, really? And earlier than that as well, we’ve started to see this rise of what’s called the right to repair movement. And basically, in a nutshell, right to repair says if you bought an item, you have the right to repair it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And tell me what that has looked like in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>So we’re seeing a lot of people interested at the community level in repairing their own things, but it’s actually translated into a movement in state governments to put this kind of legislation on the books. So here in California last year, there was a law passed, and it’s basically a right to repair law goes into effect July 1st this year. And so it changed how manufacturers have to make repair accessible basically to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Right now, consumers in California are protected by this thing called the song Beverly Consumer Warranty Act. And basically that says that if a manufacturer makes an implied or expressed warranty on a product, then they need to make the parts, tools, and information necessary to repair that item available for a certain amount of years after the last model is produced, depending on how much that item costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>This new California law is really moving that forward. So this California law applies to appliances and electronics, and it basically says that if an item cost between $50 and 9999, then the manufacturer has to make the parts, tools and information necessary to repair that item available for three years after the last production date of the model. If that item is more than 9999, then the manufacturer needs to make the parts, tools, and information available for seven years after the last production date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>There’s a lot of hope in the right to repair movement that with a state like California passing a right to repair law, that it’s really going to build momentum in the in the nationwide right to repair movement. And we’re starting to see that this year. So far, 24 states are considering right to repair legislation. And that’s just at the last count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So it sounds like this law is really about giving people the tools to fix things themselves. Was there any pushback on this law?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Yeah. I mean, writer repair gets a lot of pushback, and it’s mostly from, you know, big electronics companies like Apple. And then you have ag equipment companies like John Deere have historically pushed back against right to repair legislation. Apple lobbied heavily against this law and then came on in support of it at the last second, when they saw that it had basically, a guaranteed chance of passing or that it was going to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming back to the Fixit clinic that you went to in Redwood City. I imagine we’re going to see more of these kinds of clinics. In other cities, it seems like there’s already a lot of interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Yeah, I mean, it’s it’s definitely possible. The San Mateo County Office of Sustainability is partnering with the library system there to bring a different fix it clinic every month to different libraries in the county. Fix it clinic also has a presence on on the social platform discord. Have hundreds of members on that platform. And the founder of Fix It clinic, Peter Mui:, actually told me that they have people in Africa or Europe and spread out all throughout the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Mui: \u003c/strong>So we basically, during the pandemic, launched a Global Fixers server on discord that allowed us to extend repair to anybody on the planet who has an internet connection and can get on discord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>I spoke with a representative from the San Mateo County Office of Sustainability, and she said that basically their demand is far exceeding capacity. There’s a ton of interest in these kinds of events throughout San Mateo County. 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And he said, you know, that’s a feeling you can’t buy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Azul, thank you so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>You’re very welcome. Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That was Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman, a reporter for KQED. This 25 minute conversation with Azul was cut down and edited by producer Maria Esquinca. Alan Montecillo is our senior editor. He scored this episode and added all the tape music courtesy of First Come Music and Blue Sessions. The Bay is a production of listener supported KQED in San Francisco. I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra. 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But this disposable culture doesn’t have to be the norm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Mui: \u003c/strong>Well, there’s so much stuff in our built environment that’s easily fixable, and people don’t even think that repair is possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>This year, a new right to repair law will go into effect in California, and that’ll help make it easier for everyday people to fix their own stuff. Today, KQED reporter Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman tells us about a growing right to repair movement and takes us inside one fix it clinic in Redwood City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>So I went to a fix it clinic at the Redwood City Library…Walking in there? I mean, it’s this really kind of fun environment. 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And now this year, Fix It clinic has partnered with the San Mateo County Office of Sustainability to bring a fix it clinic to a different San Mateo County library every month this year. And so, is this your job?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Mui: \u003c/strong>No. This is this is a passion. Now, fix a clinic is a hobby of mine that’s gotten way out of control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, I know you talked with some folks there who were there to get their stuff fixed. Can you tell me about Nancy Harris?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Yeah. So, Nancy Harris lives in Moss Beach, which is about 25 miles away. It’s on the coast. And she brought in this magic bullet blender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nancy Harris: \u003c/strong>And I’m so tired of buying a new one. I would love to fix this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Schmitt: \u003c/strong>All right, let’s see. I’ve worked on one of the bigger ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>This was actually the fourth magic bullet blender that she’s owned. As she walked in, she was matched with this volunteer named Alex Schmitt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>And Alex Schmitt lives in the county. Works in software. Says he likes to tinker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Schmitt: \u003c/strong>There is one of these that the tabs may have broken off. And it looks like there may be jams. Oh. So.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>So, Nancy basically described the problem. When she plugs it in, the motor of the blender just starts whirring immediately, and she can’t get it to turn off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nancy Harris: \u003c/strong>When you’ve got it plugged in, it’s supposed to not immediately start, but start when you put the top on and screw it and you’re ready to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Alex says, okay, well, let’s let’s take a look. And within a few minutes, really, he diagnoses the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Schmitt: \u003c/strong>So now the question is, will it spin the way that you’re having the issue with. Yeah it will. Okay. You mentioned it leaks. Yes. So whatever whatever leaked in there has sort of gummed up these plastic elements that depress the switch on the bottom to the point that they got stuck on the lower end. 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They really just went in there with cotton swabs and rubbing alcohol and sort of freed up all the sticky stuff that was making the motor stuck in the on position. They even found like a small family of bugs living in the motor. So there’s all these little discoveries that they make along the way. And.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, what happened when Nancy and Alex got the magic bullet working again?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>As Nancy Harris walked out with her fixed to working magic bullet blender, volunteers took the magic bullet blender, held it aloft and yelled, you know, magic bullet blender fixed. Nancy Harris, she said she was overjoyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nancy Harris: \u003c/strong>We fixed something that had been broken and driving me crazy for at least a year and a half. It just saved me a lot of time and energy, and I learned how to fix it myself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>You know, you could really see this, like, sort of contagious look of excitement and happiness. And that’s kind of shared by the whole room when you know something gets fixed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nancy Harris: \u003c/strong>It’s not saves you, what, 100, $200 every couple of years when this happens again, I’m really, really, really happy about it. And I feel very empowered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming up, how exactly have manufacturers made it harder for us to fix our own stuff? Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>It does for some reason, also feel like a thing of the past. Like this idea that we as consumers can fix things ourselves. Like, I mean, I’m just thinking also about my partner’s laptop, which he’s been trying to get fixed for like the past two weeks. And at this point he’s like, God, I should just buy a new laptop at this point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Yeah. I mean, what you’re talking about is what’s called a repair monopoly. Basically, a manufacturer will, you know, not make their parts or tools or information necessary to repair their item accessible to consumers, basically forcing people to have to go to them to, get their thing repaired. Some companies will use, like, proprietary screw heads to put their devices together, or they’re not designed to be serviced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>There’s even something called parts pairing with electronics, where parts are paired to the serial number of your, say, computer. And if you put in a different part, it will throw an error code when you know you try to turn it back on. There’s also this idea of planned obsolescence, right, where, you know, companies are basically making things to break because it’s more profitable for them to sell you something new as opposed to have you repair it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>So, you know, manufacturers make it harder to repair their things, which means that your local shop can’t repair them. So then there’s, you know, these shops go out of business, and pretty soon the only place you can get the thing repaired is the company that made it. They can charge whatever they want, they can take as long as they want, or they can tell you it’s not able to be repaired, even if maybe it is, and force you to buy a new one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, how then is all have people actually tried to combat this disposable culture, this culture of buying new? On a larger scale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Over the past decade, really? And earlier than that as well, we’ve started to see this rise of what’s called the right to repair movement. And basically, in a nutshell, right to repair says if you bought an item, you have the right to repair it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And tell me what that has looked like in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>So we’re seeing a lot of people interested at the community level in repairing their own things, but it’s actually translated into a movement in state governments to put this kind of legislation on the books. So here in California last year, there was a law passed, and it’s basically a right to repair law goes into effect July 1st this year. And so it changed how manufacturers have to make repair accessible basically to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Right now, consumers in California are protected by this thing called the song Beverly Consumer Warranty Act. And basically that says that if a manufacturer makes an implied or expressed warranty on a product, then they need to make the parts, tools, and information necessary to repair that item available for a certain amount of years after the last model is produced, depending on how much that item costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>This new California law is really moving that forward. So this California law applies to appliances and electronics, and it basically says that if an item cost between $50 and 9999, then the manufacturer has to make the parts, tools and information necessary to repair that item available for three years after the last production date of the model. If that item is more than 9999, then the manufacturer needs to make the parts, tools, and information available for seven years after the last production date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>There’s a lot of hope in the right to repair movement that with a state like California passing a right to repair law, that it’s really going to build momentum in the in the nationwide right to repair movement. And we’re starting to see that this year. So far, 24 states are considering right to repair legislation. And that’s just at the last count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So it sounds like this law is really about giving people the tools to fix things themselves. Was there any pushback on this law?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Yeah. I mean, writer repair gets a lot of pushback, and it’s mostly from, you know, big electronics companies like Apple. And then you have ag equipment companies like John Deere have historically pushed back against right to repair legislation. Apple lobbied heavily against this law and then came on in support of it at the last second, when they saw that it had basically, a guaranteed chance of passing or that it was going to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming back to the Fixit clinic that you went to in Redwood City. I imagine we’re going to see more of these kinds of clinics. In other cities, it seems like there’s already a lot of interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Yeah, I mean, it’s it’s definitely possible. The San Mateo County Office of Sustainability is partnering with the library system there to bring a different fix it clinic every month to different libraries in the county. Fix it clinic also has a presence on on the social platform discord. Have hundreds of members on that platform. And the founder of Fix It clinic, Peter Mui:, actually told me that they have people in Africa or Europe and spread out all throughout the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Mui: \u003c/strong>So we basically, during the pandemic, launched a Global Fixers server on discord that allowed us to extend repair to anybody on the planet who has an internet connection and can get on discord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>I spoke with a representative from the San Mateo County Office of Sustainability, and she said that basically their demand is far exceeding capacity. There’s a ton of interest in these kinds of events throughout San Mateo County. And as we’re seeing sort of throughout the nation in the world at this point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Why do you think that is?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>I think as humans, really, we have this natural inclination to want to fix things. Peter Mui: would say that we are repairers at heart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Mui: \u003c/strong>Because when that thing starts working again and they are the ones who fixed it, you know, it’s like Easter, you know, it’s really it’s a really wonderful feeling that we don’t want to deprive anybody of. You want to empower these people to be able to repair stuff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>I mean, personally, you know, I, I used to have an old pickup truck, and I actually replaced the clutch on my pickup truck one time, and I went to my mechanic friend and told him about the experience. And he said, you know, that’s a feeling you can’t buy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Azul, thank you so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>You’re very welcome. Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That was Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman, a reporter for KQED. This 25 minute conversation with Azul was cut down and edited by producer Maria Esquinca. Alan Montecillo is our senior editor. He scored this episode and added all the tape music courtesy of First Come Music and Blue Sessions. The Bay is a production of listener supported KQED in San Francisco. I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Thanks for listening, peace.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11976969/a-growing-right-to-repair-culture-in-california","authors":["8654","11785","11802","11649"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_19182","news_2704","news_551","news_22598"],"featImg":"news_11974709","label":"source_news_11976969"},"news_11905230":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11905230","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11905230","score":null,"sort":[1645141165000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"do-federal-lawmakers-have-the-stomach-to-rein-in-big-tech","title":"Do Federal Lawmakers Have the Stomach to Rein in Big Tech?","publishDate":1645141165,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>More than a dozen antitrust bills targeting Big Tech are currently in play in the nation’s capital, and Silicon Valley has mounted a full-court press to kill or soften the legislative onslaught.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bills could make it more difficult for large tech companies to, among other things, acquire smaller companies, use their platforms to unduly boost their own products, and wield their huge cash stockpiles to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/11/13/666274605/how-big-is-amazon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dominate multiple, additional industries\u003c/a>.[aside postID=\"news_11889347\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51554_GettyImages-1235407516-qut.jpg\"]The main companies in the sights of federal lawmakers include Amazon, Apple, Google and Meta, the latter three of which are headquartered in the Bay Area. All four have become multibillion-dollar giants of advertising through buying and selling consumer data, while also variously dominating other industries like retail, apps and entertainment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have historically taken a relatively light touch toward regulating the technology industry. But that \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/27/monopoly-antitrust-new-rules-tech-525161\">hands-off approach has recently shifted\u003c/a> among a growing number of Democrats, and even some Republicans, as the power and size of these companies has grown exponentially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You have companies like Google that have 90% control over search engines,\" Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minnesota, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/amyklobuchar/videos/1985625218247197/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told CNN\u003c/a> last year. \"What I'm proposing is, make sure [federal agencies like the Federal Trade Commission] are able to take on trillion-dollar companies like Facebook and Google. They can't do it with Band-Aids and duct tape.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added, \"We must have laws that are as sophisticated as the companies we're dealing with.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that vein, the slate of proposed legislation tackles a wide array of gray areas in the law to provide federal regulators with the resources — monetary and conceptual — to go after large companies. Here's a small sampling of the bills:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3816\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HR 3816\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2992\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">S 2992\u003c/a>: \u003cstrong>The American Choice and Innovation Online Act\u003c/strong> would bar platforms like Apple's App Store or Amazon's Marketplace from \"self-preferencing,\" or giving their own products an unfair advantage over those of their competitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3843?q=%7B%22search%22:%5B%223843%22,%223843%22%5D%7D&s=3&r=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HR 3843\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/228?q=%7B%22search%22:%5B%22Merger+Filing+Fee+Modernization+Act%22,%22Merger%22,%22Filing%22,%22Fee%22,%22Modernization%22,%22Act%22%5D%7D&s=6&r=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">S 228\u003c/a>: \u003cstrong>The Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act of 2021\u003c/strong> would increase the merger fees regulators collect from companies and use the additional amounts to fund aggressive enforcement of antitrust laws by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/3608?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22Social+Media+NUDGE+Act%22%2C%22Social%22%2C%22Media%22%2C%22NUDGE%22%2C%22Act%22%5D%7D&s=1&r=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">S 3608\u003c/a>: \u003cstrong>The Social Media NUDGE Act\u003c/strong> would direct the National Science Foundation and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine to study \"content neutral\" ways to address the algorithmic amplification of harmful content.[aside postID=\"forum_2010101882161\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/43/2016/11/facebook-screen.jpg\"]But despite high-drama hearings from whistleblowers like former Facebook lead product manager \u003ca href=\"https://www.franceshaugen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Frances Haugen\u003c/a>, most of these bills have yet to make it out of their respective committees. It's entirely unclear how many will ever get a floor vote in the House or Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Klobuchar, among the handful of lawmakers leading the antitrust charge, has acknowledged that the odds are daunting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are up against a lot. ... The tech companies have 2,500 lobbyists and probably 10,000 lawyers,\" she said at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary \u003ca href=\"https://www.c-span.org/video/?516757-1/senate-hearing-impact-corporate-monopolies-innovation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights\u003c/a> last December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And most analysts agree that if Republicans regain the majority in Congress after this year's midterm elections, it’s game over for the biggest antitrust effort in generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Strong pushback\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Tech industry proponents have presented a varied, and in some cases compelling, set of arguments against these legislative efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berin Szóka, president of TechFreedom, a \u003ca href=\"https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/trade_association_and_third_party_groups.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tech-funded\u003c/a> think tank in Washington, D.C., argues that the bills are rushed and poorly written. He decries the lack of traditional legislative hearings and markups before floor debate, even while acknowledging this practice has fallen out of vogue in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are legislating the way that that cartoon shows the railroad bridge being built out over the canyon as the train is going — except we don’t know what the train looks like or where it's going,\" he said.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jennifer King, privacy and data policy fellow, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence\"]'We now have a legislative structure that's just as dependent on those data practices that the commercial structure is dependent on: behavioral targeting and marketing practices that are really at issue in all these cases.'[/pullquote]Efforts by Democrats, like Klobuchar, to win support from key Republicans, he says, have resulted in bills full of ticking time bombs that could explode on Democrats and their allies the next time Republicans regain control of the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, Szóka argues, the same bill that would prevent tech titans from discriminating against competitors might also prevent them from removing companies from their app stores that have violated content rules, like Parler, a social media platform that has become a safe harbor for right-wing conspiracy theorists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's going to be easy for these sites that cater to extremists to sue, to harass mainstream services, to rifle through emails, to depose executives,\" said Szóka.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar concerns have been expressed by many in California's congressional delegation, suggesting that Democrats could balk at supporting some of the bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Alex Padilla are among a large group of California Democrats who have criticized elements of the bills, mirroring some of the arguments made by tech-funded think tanks. Reps. Lou Correa, D-East LA; Ted Lieu, D-Torrance; Eric Swalwell, D-Castro Valley; Ro Khanna, D-Fremont; and Zoe Lofgren, D-San Jose also have raised concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think they spent more time on the hearing than they did in writing the proposed legislation. Because it’s not well crafted and it was done in a hurry,\" Lofgren recently lamented about the American Choice and Innovation Online Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview last month with Julia Angwin of The Markup, \u003ca href=\"https://www.c-span.org/video/?517286-1/after-words-representative-ro-khanna\">Rep. Khanna said breakups are certainly justified\u003c/a> in some instances. \"On Facebook, for example, where they've acquired Instagram and WhatsApp, you should have an unraveling of that company. I think you want to have a ban on mergers that are acquiring competitors.\"[aside postID=\"news_11888891\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-461843598-scaled.jpg\"]But he cautioned about being \"overly restrictive on all mergers,\" noting that mergers and acquisitions are a basic element of the U.S. economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Washington Post recently reported that \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/01/21/tech-lobbying-in-washington/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">just seven large tech companies spent nearly $70 million\u003c/a> lobbying the U.S. government in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are genuinely concerned that they could break a wide range of popular services we offer to our users, all the work we do to make our products safe, private and secure, and in some cases can hurt American competitiveness by disadvantaging solely U.S. companies,\" Google CEO Sundar Pichai said of the current bills during a recent earnings call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Lofgren and others who have voiced concerns with the current bills \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/03/tech-giants-are-doling-out-political-donations-antitrust-skeptics-congress/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">continue to take money\u003c/a> from the likes of Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft, but say that doesn't influence their position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lofgren told KQED, \"That’s obviously baloney, and if that were the case, Anna [Eshoo] and I wouldn’t have introduced our privacy bill, which would require a huge change in the business model of any company that relies on the data of its users.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/6027/text?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22Online+Privacy+Act%22%2C%22Online%22%2C%22Privacy%22%2C%22Act%22%5D%7D&r=1&s=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Online Privacy Act\u003c/a> Lofgren reintroduced with fellow Silicon Valley Rep. Anna Eshoo is considered a serious threat to the personal data trading model that’s become the bread and butter for mega conglomerates. The legislation would require companies to protect users’ data, as well as establish a new federal agency to enforce privacy protections, and strengthen enforcement of privacy law violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer King, who follows data and privacy for the \u003ca href=\"http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/jen-king\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence\u003c/a>, is not holding her breath for this Congress to act on any kind of revolutionary reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One big reason why: Both political parties, she notes, have grown quite fond of using targeted advertising themselves. \"We now have a legislative structure that’s just as dependent on those data practices that the commercial structure is dependent on: behavioral targeting and marketing practices that are really at issue in all these cases,\" King said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The one thing most lawmakers do seem to agree on is the need for some kind of new legislation, if only to bolster funding for federal regulators like those at the Federal Trade Commission. But what exactly that should look like is where the consensus falls apart.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"More than a dozen antitrust bills targeting Big Tech are in play in the nation's capital right now, and Silicon Valley has mounted a full-court press to kill or soften the legislative attack.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1645142005,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":31,"wordCount":1466},"headData":{"title":"Do Federal Lawmakers Have the Stomach to Rein in Big Tech? | KQED","description":"More than a dozen antitrust bills targeting Big Tech are in play in the nation's capital right now, and Silicon Valley has mounted a full-court press to kill or soften the legislative attack.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11905230 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11905230","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/02/17/do-federal-lawmakers-have-the-stomach-to-rein-in-big-tech/","disqusTitle":"Do Federal Lawmakers Have the Stomach to Rein in Big Tech?","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-4[…]f-aaef00f5a073/86b2144c-161e-43c4-9c10-ae3d01176691/audio.mp3","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11905230/do-federal-lawmakers-have-the-stomach-to-rein-in-big-tech","audioDuration":260000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>More than a dozen antitrust bills targeting Big Tech are currently in play in the nation’s capital, and Silicon Valley has mounted a full-court press to kill or soften the legislative onslaught.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bills could make it more difficult for large tech companies to, among other things, acquire smaller companies, use their platforms to unduly boost their own products, and wield their huge cash stockpiles to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/11/13/666274605/how-big-is-amazon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dominate multiple, additional industries\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11889347","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51554_GettyImages-1235407516-qut.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The main companies in the sights of federal lawmakers include Amazon, Apple, Google and Meta, the latter three of which are headquartered in the Bay Area. All four have become multibillion-dollar giants of advertising through buying and selling consumer data, while also variously dominating other industries like retail, apps and entertainment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have historically taken a relatively light touch toward regulating the technology industry. But that \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/27/monopoly-antitrust-new-rules-tech-525161\">hands-off approach has recently shifted\u003c/a> among a growing number of Democrats, and even some Republicans, as the power and size of these companies has grown exponentially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You have companies like Google that have 90% control over search engines,\" Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minnesota, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/amyklobuchar/videos/1985625218247197/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told CNN\u003c/a> last year. \"What I'm proposing is, make sure [federal agencies like the Federal Trade Commission] are able to take on trillion-dollar companies like Facebook and Google. They can't do it with Band-Aids and duct tape.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added, \"We must have laws that are as sophisticated as the companies we're dealing with.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that vein, the slate of proposed legislation tackles a wide array of gray areas in the law to provide federal regulators with the resources — monetary and conceptual — to go after large companies. Here's a small sampling of the bills:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3816\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HR 3816\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2992\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">S 2992\u003c/a>: \u003cstrong>The American Choice and Innovation Online Act\u003c/strong> would bar platforms like Apple's App Store or Amazon's Marketplace from \"self-preferencing,\" or giving their own products an unfair advantage over those of their competitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3843?q=%7B%22search%22:%5B%223843%22,%223843%22%5D%7D&s=3&r=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HR 3843\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/228?q=%7B%22search%22:%5B%22Merger+Filing+Fee+Modernization+Act%22,%22Merger%22,%22Filing%22,%22Fee%22,%22Modernization%22,%22Act%22%5D%7D&s=6&r=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">S 228\u003c/a>: \u003cstrong>The Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act of 2021\u003c/strong> would increase the merger fees regulators collect from companies and use the additional amounts to fund aggressive enforcement of antitrust laws by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/3608?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22Social+Media+NUDGE+Act%22%2C%22Social%22%2C%22Media%22%2C%22NUDGE%22%2C%22Act%22%5D%7D&s=1&r=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">S 3608\u003c/a>: \u003cstrong>The Social Media NUDGE Act\u003c/strong> would direct the National Science Foundation and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine to study \"content neutral\" ways to address the algorithmic amplification of harmful content.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"forum_2010101882161","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/43/2016/11/facebook-screen.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But despite high-drama hearings from whistleblowers like former Facebook lead product manager \u003ca href=\"https://www.franceshaugen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Frances Haugen\u003c/a>, most of these bills have yet to make it out of their respective committees. It's entirely unclear how many will ever get a floor vote in the House or Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Klobuchar, among the handful of lawmakers leading the antitrust charge, has acknowledged that the odds are daunting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are up against a lot. ... The tech companies have 2,500 lobbyists and probably 10,000 lawyers,\" she said at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary \u003ca href=\"https://www.c-span.org/video/?516757-1/senate-hearing-impact-corporate-monopolies-innovation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights\u003c/a> last December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And most analysts agree that if Republicans regain the majority in Congress after this year's midterm elections, it’s game over for the biggest antitrust effort in generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Strong pushback\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Tech industry proponents have presented a varied, and in some cases compelling, set of arguments against these legislative efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berin Szóka, president of TechFreedom, a \u003ca href=\"https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/trade_association_and_third_party_groups.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tech-funded\u003c/a> think tank in Washington, D.C., argues that the bills are rushed and poorly written. He decries the lack of traditional legislative hearings and markups before floor debate, even while acknowledging this practice has fallen out of vogue in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are legislating the way that that cartoon shows the railroad bridge being built out over the canyon as the train is going — except we don’t know what the train looks like or where it's going,\" he said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'We now have a legislative structure that's just as dependent on those data practices that the commercial structure is dependent on: behavioral targeting and marketing practices that are really at issue in all these cases.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Jennifer King, privacy and data policy fellow, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Efforts by Democrats, like Klobuchar, to win support from key Republicans, he says, have resulted in bills full of ticking time bombs that could explode on Democrats and their allies the next time Republicans regain control of the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, Szóka argues, the same bill that would prevent tech titans from discriminating against competitors might also prevent them from removing companies from their app stores that have violated content rules, like Parler, a social media platform that has become a safe harbor for right-wing conspiracy theorists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's going to be easy for these sites that cater to extremists to sue, to harass mainstream services, to rifle through emails, to depose executives,\" said Szóka.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar concerns have been expressed by many in California's congressional delegation, suggesting that Democrats could balk at supporting some of the bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Alex Padilla are among a large group of California Democrats who have criticized elements of the bills, mirroring some of the arguments made by tech-funded think tanks. Reps. Lou Correa, D-East LA; Ted Lieu, D-Torrance; Eric Swalwell, D-Castro Valley; Ro Khanna, D-Fremont; and Zoe Lofgren, D-San Jose also have raised concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think they spent more time on the hearing than they did in writing the proposed legislation. Because it’s not well crafted and it was done in a hurry,\" Lofgren recently lamented about the American Choice and Innovation Online Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview last month with Julia Angwin of The Markup, \u003ca href=\"https://www.c-span.org/video/?517286-1/after-words-representative-ro-khanna\">Rep. Khanna said breakups are certainly justified\u003c/a> in some instances. \"On Facebook, for example, where they've acquired Instagram and WhatsApp, you should have an unraveling of that company. I think you want to have a ban on mergers that are acquiring competitors.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11888891","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-461843598-scaled.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But he cautioned about being \"overly restrictive on all mergers,\" noting that mergers and acquisitions are a basic element of the U.S. economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Washington Post recently reported that \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/01/21/tech-lobbying-in-washington/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">just seven large tech companies spent nearly $70 million\u003c/a> lobbying the U.S. government in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are genuinely concerned that they could break a wide range of popular services we offer to our users, all the work we do to make our products safe, private and secure, and in some cases can hurt American competitiveness by disadvantaging solely U.S. companies,\" Google CEO Sundar Pichai said of the current bills during a recent earnings call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Lofgren and others who have voiced concerns with the current bills \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/03/tech-giants-are-doling-out-political-donations-antitrust-skeptics-congress/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">continue to take money\u003c/a> from the likes of Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft, but say that doesn't influence their position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lofgren told KQED, \"That’s obviously baloney, and if that were the case, Anna [Eshoo] and I wouldn’t have introduced our privacy bill, which would require a huge change in the business model of any company that relies on the data of its users.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/6027/text?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22Online+Privacy+Act%22%2C%22Online%22%2C%22Privacy%22%2C%22Act%22%5D%7D&r=1&s=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Online Privacy Act\u003c/a> Lofgren reintroduced with fellow Silicon Valley Rep. Anna Eshoo is considered a serious threat to the personal data trading model that’s become the bread and butter for mega conglomerates. The legislation would require companies to protect users’ data, as well as establish a new federal agency to enforce privacy protections, and strengthen enforcement of privacy law violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer King, who follows data and privacy for the \u003ca href=\"http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/jen-king\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence\u003c/a>, is not holding her breath for this Congress to act on any kind of revolutionary reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One big reason why: Both political parties, she notes, have grown quite fond of using targeted advertising themselves. \"We now have a legislative structure that’s just as dependent on those data practices that the commercial structure is dependent on: behavioral targeting and marketing practices that are really at issue in all these cases,\" King said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The one thing most lawmakers do seem to agree on is the need for some kind of new legislation, if only to bolster funding for federal regulators like those at the Federal Trade Commission. But what exactly that should look like is where the consensus falls apart.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11905230/do-federal-lawmakers-have-the-stomach-to-rein-in-big-tech","authors":["251"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_1758","news_8","news_248"],"tags":["news_1611","news_25267","news_23736","news_19182","news_20910","news_93","news_30214","news_3952","news_2011","news_6238","news_353","news_28341","news_2013"],"featImg":"news_11905487","label":"news_72"},"news_11896177":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11896177","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11896177","score":null,"sort":[1636835122000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-apples-privacy-protections-can-benefit-its-bottom-line-in-surprising-ways","title":"How Apple's Privacy Protections Can Benefit Its Bottom Line in Surprising Ways","publishDate":1636835122,"format":"audio","headTitle":"How Apple’s Privacy Protections Can Benefit Its Bottom Line in Surprising Ways | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Back in April, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/04/26/990943261/apple-rolls-out-major-new-privacy-protections-for-iphones-and-ipads\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">privacy advocates hailed\u003c/a> Apple’s decision to let customers opt out of apps tracking you. But Apple is still tracking its own customers and serving them up to advertisers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One ad that Apple released in May explaining the policy shift shows a guy named Felix followed around by an army of people who know too much about him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They walk too close, sit too close, and peer over his shoulder as he uses his iPhone, until he finally clicks on a dialog box that says, “Ask App Not to Track.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-7jSoINyq4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple CEO Tim Cook insists privacy is top of mind for the company. Earlier this year, speaking at a privacy and data protection conference in Belgium, he said, “As I’ve said before, if we accept as normal and unavoidable that everything can be aggregated and sold, then we lose so much more than data. We lose the freedom to be human.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When questioned at the company’s latest earnings call this fall, Cook \u003ca href=\"https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2021/10/29/apple-aapl-q4-2021-earnings-call-transcript/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reiterated\u003c/a> that consumer control over privacy was the company’s motivation. “There’s no other motivation,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaLxTz1Yw7M\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at the same time, Apple has \u003ca href=\"https://www.ft.com/content/074b881f-a931-4986-888e-2ac53e286b9d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cleared a path\u003c/a> for itself to grow its advertising business. By one estimate, from the mobile analytics software company Branch, Apple tripled its market share in the months after it introduced the privacy changes to iPhones. Those changes obstructed rivals, like Facebook and Google.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That tripling may be a little bit of an overestimate, but they’ve grown their market share for mobile advertising as a direct result of this policy,” said Eric Seufert, an independent analyst covering mobile advertising, especially for gaming companies. He also runs a blog called \u003ca href=\"https://mobiledevmemo.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mobile Dev Memo\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Apple collects that data about you and it uses that data to sort of populate the ad placements there, which is like recommended apps — apps that it thinks you would like to download,” Seufert said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple’s rival ad platforms, like Google, Facebook, and TikTok, were well aware of the hit they would take to their bottom line as a result of Apple’s policy change. They complained before and after. Facebook even took out full-page ads in newspapers to advertise its displeasure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11801063,news_11802864,forum_2010101883563\" label=\"Related Coverage\"]But the advertisers who buy the ads from these platforms aren’t necessarily screaming bloody murder. “No, I don’t really blame profit-seeking entities for trying to make profit,” said Chris Stevens, chief marketing officer for the parking app SpotHero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if Apple temporarily reduces the number of ads coming at iPhone users — in an era when lawmakers and regulators appear unwilling or unable to — well, who’s going to weep crocodile tears for advertisers?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stevens says it’s up to those companies to craft campaigns that intrigue and delight, rather than annoy and alarm. “That’s actually a symptom of a bad marketing campaign. It’s not really a symptom of a bad technology,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Except that a growing number of people are not that keen on the inescapable nature of the surveillance ad economy: buying and selling zombie profiles of you, and bombarding you with “personalized” pitches for things you don’t want or need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Stevens and others say Apple’s credibility with consumers is unlikely to suffer because most consumers are completely unaware that Apple operates in the ad space, serving you up to advertisers, just as everybody else who can does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Apple's move last spring to give iPhone users the option to opt out of tracking by non-Apple apps was a savvy step to elbow aside Apple's rivals in the advertising business.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1701188585,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":627},"headData":{"title":"How Apple's Privacy Protections Can Benefit Its Bottom Line in Surprising Ways | KQED","description":"Apple's move last spring to give iPhone users the option to opt out of tracking by non-Apple apps was a savvy step to elbow aside Apple's rivals in the advertising business.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/7d1140f7-d23b-4a3b-a231-ade101500017/audio.mp3","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11896177/how-apples-privacy-protections-can-benefit-its-bottom-line-in-surprising-ways","audioDuration":230000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Back in April, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/04/26/990943261/apple-rolls-out-major-new-privacy-protections-for-iphones-and-ipads\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">privacy advocates hailed\u003c/a> Apple’s decision to let customers opt out of apps tracking you. But Apple is still tracking its own customers and serving them up to advertisers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One ad that Apple released in May explaining the policy shift shows a guy named Felix followed around by an army of people who know too much about him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They walk too close, sit too close, and peer over his shoulder as he uses his iPhone, until he finally clicks on a dialog box that says, “Ask App Not to Track.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/4-7jSoINyq4'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/4-7jSoINyq4'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Apple CEO Tim Cook insists privacy is top of mind for the company. Earlier this year, speaking at a privacy and data protection conference in Belgium, he said, “As I’ve said before, if we accept as normal and unavoidable that everything can be aggregated and sold, then we lose so much more than data. We lose the freedom to be human.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When questioned at the company’s latest earnings call this fall, Cook \u003ca href=\"https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2021/10/29/apple-aapl-q4-2021-earnings-call-transcript/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reiterated\u003c/a> that consumer control over privacy was the company’s motivation. “There’s no other motivation,” he said.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/OaLxTz1Yw7M'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/OaLxTz1Yw7M'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>But at the same time, Apple has \u003ca href=\"https://www.ft.com/content/074b881f-a931-4986-888e-2ac53e286b9d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cleared a path\u003c/a> for itself to grow its advertising business. By one estimate, from the mobile analytics software company Branch, Apple tripled its market share in the months after it introduced the privacy changes to iPhones. Those changes obstructed rivals, like Facebook and Google.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That tripling may be a little bit of an overestimate, but they’ve grown their market share for mobile advertising as a direct result of this policy,” said Eric Seufert, an independent analyst covering mobile advertising, especially for gaming companies. He also runs a blog called \u003ca href=\"https://mobiledevmemo.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mobile Dev Memo\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Apple collects that data about you and it uses that data to sort of populate the ad placements there, which is like recommended apps — apps that it thinks you would like to download,” Seufert said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple’s rival ad platforms, like Google, Facebook, and TikTok, were well aware of the hit they would take to their bottom line as a result of Apple’s policy change. They complained before and after. Facebook even took out full-page ads in newspapers to advertise its displeasure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11801063,news_11802864,forum_2010101883563","label":"Related Coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But the advertisers who buy the ads from these platforms aren’t necessarily screaming bloody murder. “No, I don’t really blame profit-seeking entities for trying to make profit,” said Chris Stevens, chief marketing officer for the parking app SpotHero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if Apple temporarily reduces the number of ads coming at iPhone users — in an era when lawmakers and regulators appear unwilling or unable to — well, who’s going to weep crocodile tears for advertisers?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stevens says it’s up to those companies to craft campaigns that intrigue and delight, rather than annoy and alarm. “That’s actually a symptom of a bad marketing campaign. It’s not really a symptom of a bad technology,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Except that a growing number of people are not that keen on the inescapable nature of the surveillance ad economy: buying and selling zombie profiles of you, and bombarding you with “personalized” pitches for things you don’t want or need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Stevens and others say Apple’s credibility with consumers is unlikely to suffer because most consumers are completely unaware that Apple operates in the ad space, serving you up to advertisers, just as everybody else who can does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11896177/how-apples-privacy-protections-can-benefit-its-bottom-line-in-surprising-ways","authors":["251"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_1758","news_8","news_248"],"tags":["news_21267","news_19182","news_22844","news_2414","news_2125","news_2011","news_353","news_4289"],"featImg":"news_11896185","label":"news_72"},"news_11892481":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11892481","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11892481","score":null,"sort":[1634329462000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"apple-fires-appletoo-leader-as-part-of-leak-probe-she-says-its-retaliation","title":"Apple Fires #AppleToo Leader as Part of Leak Probe. She Says It’s Retaliation","publishDate":1634329462,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated October 15, 2021 at 11:46 AM PT\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple has fired a lead organizer of the #AppleToo movement, as the company investigates multiple employees suspected of leaking internal documents to the media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janneke Parrish, a program manager who had been with the company for more than five years, told NPR that she was pushed out on Thursday. Parrish said she was dismissed after Apple claimed she had deleted files and apps from her company phone amid an investigation into how details of a meeting with Apple CEO Tim Cook leaked to the press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is retaliation. I have been one of the most visible members of #AppleToo. I know the risk of doing that,\" Parrish said. \"I see a consistent pattern when each of the members of #AppleToo are subjected to investigations or Apple leadership approaches them. There has been a pattern established.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://appletoo.us/\">#AppleToo\u003c/a> was spearheaded by Parrish and another Apple employee, Cher Scarlett, who is still at Apple but on medical leave and would not comment to NPR. The effort \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/appletoo\">gathered hundreds of anonymous accounts\u003c/a> from Apple employees who highlighted alleged verbal abuse, sexual harassment, pay equity issues and other forms of workplace mistreatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was hoping to give a voice to those who have been ignored, gaslit or retaliated against for abuse in the workplace,\" Parrish told NPR. \"They are stories that echoed across the company.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple spokesperson Josh Rosenstock said the company is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive work environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We take all concerns seriously and we thoroughly investigate whenever a concern is raised, and out of respect for the privacy of any individuals involved, we do not discuss specific employee matters,\" he told NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Apple employees who are supportive of #AppleToo say that, like Parrish, they see her ouster as a reprisal for workplace organizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Retaliating against Janneke is not going to stop Apple workers from standing up for themselves,\" said one employee who requested anonymity for fear of being targeted by the company. \"There are many workers who support #AppleToo who are trying to break the culture of secrecy at the company, and they aren't going to stop.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"apple\"]A small but growing chorus of Silicon Valley workers, from those employed by industry giants \u003ca href=\"#increasinglycalling\">like Google\u003c/a> to workers at smaller companies like Glitch, Mapbox and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/06/30/1011387838/change-org-workers-form-a-union-giving-labor-activists-another-win-in-tech\">Change.org\u003c/a>, have in recent years been drawing attention to everything from the precarious arrangements of contract workers to workplace harassment and abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Apple, a company known for respectable pay and generous company perks, workers have long been deferential to leadership and kept complaints within the confines of the Cupertino-based company. But Parrish and others became fed up with what they saw as a lack of progress inside the company, so they began speaking out publicly and organizing colleagues around common causes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Every internal avenue was closed,\" Parrish said. \"Leadership closed them all. When that happens, what other option do we have?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vince White, a lawyer representing Parrish, says Apple likely violated the law by firing his client.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're looking at a number of different retaliation claims under a variety of different statutes,\" White said. \"This is an act of retaliation that can very well lead to litigation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>News of the firing comes months after revelations surfaced that the National Labor Relations Board is investigating two charges against Apple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One was filed by former senior engineering program manager Ashley Gjøvik, who claims that her manager at Apple harassed her and that the company gave her fewer responsibilities at work as a form of retaliation. In September, Apple fired Gjøvik for allegedly publicly sharing confidential company records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other charge was filed by Scarlett, the #AppleToo co-founder, who claimed Apple shut down her efforts to conduct company-wide pay-equity surveys, which she says she was doing to help confirm her allegations of gender-pay gaps. She said Apple even blocked her attempt to start a discussion on the workplace communication tool Slack about gender pay discrepancies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tech news website The Verge \u003ca href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/15/22727123/apple-fires-leader-apple-too-movement\">first reported\u003c/a> on Parrish's firing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parrish said she has been overwhelmed with support from former colleagues at Apple, but she worries that her firing might have a chilling effect on other employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This shows that there are consequences for standing up and saying, 'I disagree,' \" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, she added, \"I recognize how much this can galvanize people to do the right thing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Editor's note:\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cem> Apple is among NPR's financial supporters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Apple+fires+%23AppleToo+leader+as+part+of+leak+probe.+She+says+it%27s+retaliation&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Janneke Parrish says she was fired from Apple as part of an investigation tracing the source of leaks to the press. She co-led the #AppleToo movement, which seeks to expose incidents of worker mistreatment at the company. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1648854501,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":25,"wordCount":770},"headData":{"title":"Apple Fires #AppleToo Leader as Part of Leak Probe. 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She Says It’s Retaliation","source":"NPR","sourceUrl":"https://www.npr.org","nprImageCredit":"Mark Lennihan","nprByline":"Bobby Allyn","nprImageAgency":"AP","nprStoryId":"1046386968","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=1046386968&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2021/10/15/1046386968/apple-fires-appletoo-leader-amid-leak-investigation?ft=nprml&f=1046386968","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Fri, 15 Oct 2021 15:46:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Fri, 15 Oct 2021 13:35:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Fri, 15 Oct 2021 15:46:58 -0400","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/news/11892481/apple-fires-appletoo-leader-as-part-of-leak-probe-she-says-its-retaliation","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated October 15, 2021 at 11:46 AM PT\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple has fired a lead organizer of the #AppleToo movement, as the company investigates multiple employees suspected of leaking internal documents to the media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janneke Parrish, a program manager who had been with the company for more than five years, told NPR that she was pushed out on Thursday. Parrish said she was dismissed after Apple claimed she had deleted files and apps from her company phone amid an investigation into how details of a meeting with Apple CEO Tim Cook leaked to the press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is retaliation. I have been one of the most visible members of #AppleToo. I know the risk of doing that,\" Parrish said. \"I see a consistent pattern when each of the members of #AppleToo are subjected to investigations or Apple leadership approaches them. There has been a pattern established.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://appletoo.us/\">#AppleToo\u003c/a> was spearheaded by Parrish and another Apple employee, Cher Scarlett, who is still at Apple but on medical leave and would not comment to NPR. The effort \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/appletoo\">gathered hundreds of anonymous accounts\u003c/a> from Apple employees who highlighted alleged verbal abuse, sexual harassment, pay equity issues and other forms of workplace mistreatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was hoping to give a voice to those who have been ignored, gaslit or retaliated against for abuse in the workplace,\" Parrish told NPR. \"They are stories that echoed across the company.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple spokesperson Josh Rosenstock said the company is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive work environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We take all concerns seriously and we thoroughly investigate whenever a concern is raised, and out of respect for the privacy of any individuals involved, we do not discuss specific employee matters,\" he told NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Apple employees who are supportive of #AppleToo say that, like Parrish, they see her ouster as a reprisal for workplace organizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Retaliating against Janneke is not going to stop Apple workers from standing up for themselves,\" said one employee who requested anonymity for fear of being targeted by the company. \"There are many workers who support #AppleToo who are trying to break the culture of secrecy at the company, and they aren't going to stop.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"apple"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A small but growing chorus of Silicon Valley workers, from those employed by industry giants \u003ca href=\"#increasinglycalling\">like Google\u003c/a> to workers at smaller companies like Glitch, Mapbox and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/06/30/1011387838/change-org-workers-form-a-union-giving-labor-activists-another-win-in-tech\">Change.org\u003c/a>, have in recent years been drawing attention to everything from the precarious arrangements of contract workers to workplace harassment and abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Apple, a company known for respectable pay and generous company perks, workers have long been deferential to leadership and kept complaints within the confines of the Cupertino-based company. But Parrish and others became fed up with what they saw as a lack of progress inside the company, so they began speaking out publicly and organizing colleagues around common causes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Every internal avenue was closed,\" Parrish said. \"Leadership closed them all. When that happens, what other option do we have?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vince White, a lawyer representing Parrish, says Apple likely violated the law by firing his client.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're looking at a number of different retaliation claims under a variety of different statutes,\" White said. \"This is an act of retaliation that can very well lead to litigation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>News of the firing comes months after revelations surfaced that the National Labor Relations Board is investigating two charges against Apple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One was filed by former senior engineering program manager Ashley Gjøvik, who claims that her manager at Apple harassed her and that the company gave her fewer responsibilities at work as a form of retaliation. In September, Apple fired Gjøvik for allegedly publicly sharing confidential company records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other charge was filed by Scarlett, the #AppleToo co-founder, who claimed Apple shut down her efforts to conduct company-wide pay-equity surveys, which she says she was doing to help confirm her allegations of gender-pay gaps. She said Apple even blocked her attempt to start a discussion on the workplace communication tool Slack about gender pay discrepancies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tech news website The Verge \u003ca href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/15/22727123/apple-fires-leader-apple-too-movement\">first reported\u003c/a> on Parrish's firing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parrish said she has been overwhelmed with support from former colleagues at Apple, but she worries that her firing might have a chilling effect on other employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This shows that there are consequences for standing up and saying, 'I disagree,' \" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, she added, \"I recognize how much this can galvanize people to do the right thing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Editor's note:\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cem> Apple is among NPR's financial supporters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Apple+fires+%23AppleToo+leader+as+part+of+leak+probe.+She+says+it%27s+retaliation&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11892481/apple-fires-appletoo-leader-as-part-of-leak-probe-she-says-its-retaliation","authors":["byline_news_11892481"],"categories":["news_8","news_248"],"tags":["news_19182","news_19904","news_22464","news_353"],"featImg":"news_11910204","label":"source_news_11892481"},"news_11889347":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11889347","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11889347","score":null,"sort":[1632338544000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"senate-antitrust-panel-appears-ready-to-tussle-with-big-tech","title":"Senate Antitrust Panel Appears Ready to Tussle With Big Tech","publishDate":1632338544,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>U.S. Sen. Mike Lee, a Republican from Utah and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights, was engaged in a testy exchange with Facebook Privacy and Public Policy Vice President Steve Satterfield at Tuesday's \u003ca href=\"https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/big-data-big-questions-implications-for-competition-and-consumers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hearing\u003c/a>, the latest to put Big Tech executives on the spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee brought up a \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-facebook-files-11631713039\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\"series of bombshell reports\" about Facebook\u003c/a> he read in the Wall Street Journal last week. The series argues Facebook knows \"in acute detail that its platforms are riddled with flaws that cause harm, often in ways only the company fully understands.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"forum_2010101882161,forum_2010101885579,news_11888891\" label=\"Related Coverage\"]Satterfield countered that Facebook's internal research, leaked to the WSJ, reflects the way \"we think that’s an important way of encouraging free and frank discussion within the company.\" The report, he said, had \"missed the mark\" in its depictions of the company's internal workings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This provoked Lee, who yelled, \"How does it miss the mark? How does it miss the mark, any more than revelations years ago about tobacco companies concealing the dangers of tobacco? ... And what tobacco companies knew about what they were doing to their own users?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there was any concern the antitrust crackdown on Silicon Valley stalled in Washington, D.C., over the summer, Tuesday's hearing seemed to indicate lawmakers on both sides of the aisle smell blood in the water and feel there's much to be gained politically by pursuing Big Tech — and not just in front of the cameras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee's remark about tobacco was one of several references of the day made about companies and industries that lawmakers on Capitol Hill have dismantled in the 20th century. And while numerous hearings on Big Tech in the last two decades have featured pearl-clutching grandstanding followed by little to no antitrust legislation, the mood appears to have shifted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To start, the Biden administration has been installing \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/07/01/1011907383/new-ftc-chair-lina-khan-wants-to-redefine-monopoly-power-for-the-age-of-big-tech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">antitrust hawks in key regulatory agencies\u003c/a> like the Federal Trade Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Numerous bills are also being proposed, like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/225?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22%5C%22Klobuchar%5C%22%22%5D%7D&s=1&r=94\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Competition and Antitrust Law Enforcement Reform Act\u003c/a> put forward by U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, the Democrat who \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QRsM9G4yAQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">chairs the U.S. Senate antitrust panel\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When big data inhibits competition by allowing those who have it to block access to markets for those who do not, we need to step in and fix it. This means enforcing our existing antitrust laws to their fullest extent to protect competition. It means updating our antitrust laws for the modern economy, just as we've done centuries past,\" Klobuchar said in her opening remarks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's also the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2710/text?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22senate+app+stores%22%5D%7D&r=1&s=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Open App Markets Act\u003c/a>, from Connecticut Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal on the panel, which targets Apple and Google's control of their app stores. Plus, companion Senate legislation is reported to be on the wing to match five bipartisan bills from the House Antitrust Subcommittee that openly target Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cicilline.house.gov/sites/cicilline.house.gov/files/documents/American%20Innovation%20and%20Choice%20Online%20Act%20-%20Bill%20Text.pdf\">The American Innovation and Choice Online Act\u003c/a> would prohibit discriminatory conduct by dominant platforms, including a ban on self-preferencing a company's own products and services.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cicilline.house.gov/sites/cicilline.house.gov/files/documents/Platform%20Competition%20and%20Opportunity%20Act%20-%20Bill%20Text%20%281%29.pdf\">The Platform Competition and Opportunity Act\u003c/a> prohibits acquisitions of competitive threats by dominant platforms, as well as acquisitions that entrench the market power of online platforms.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cicilline.house.gov/sites/cicilline.house.gov/files/documents/Ending%20Platform%20Monopolies%20-%20Bill%20Text.pdf\">The Ending Platform Monopolies Act\u003c/a> attacks the ability of dominant platforms to leverage their control across multiple business lines.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cicilline.house.gov/sites/cicilline.house.gov/files/documents/ACCESS%20Act%20-%20Bill%20Text%20%281%29.pdf\">The Augmenting Compatibility and Competition by Enabling Service Switching (ACCESS) Act\u003c/a> promotes competition online by insisting on interoperability and data portability.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cicilline.house.gov/sites/cicilline.house.gov/files/documents/Merger%20Filing%20Fee%20Modernization%20Act%20of%202021%20-%20Bill%20Text%20%281%29.pdf\">The Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act\u003c/a> updates filing fees for mergers for the first time in two decades to boost the budgets of the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Last, but not least, the bills have the support of a bipartisan coalition of 32 attorneys general, who sent a \u003ca href=\"https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/antitrust_package_support_letter_.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">letter\u003c/a> Monday to Democratic and Republican leaders of the House and the Senate, as well as their respective judiciary committees. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We stand ready and willing to share our experience with members of Congress, including how our antitrust enforcement efforts have met inappropriate skepticism in the courts,\" the coalition wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Charlotte Slaiman, competition policy director at Public Knowledge\"]'For decades, Washington has taken the perspective that we need to let digital businesses run wild to see what great innovations they might come up with. But today, unscrupulous data practices and consolidated power have led us to a place that isn't anyone's dream of what the internet was supposed to be.'[/pullquote]\"Modernization of our antitrust laws is long overdue and broadly supported,\" said \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-joins-bipartisan-coalition-support-congressional-efforts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Attorney General Rob Bonta in a press release announcing his support of the coalition\u003c/a>. \"The last time Congress passed a comprehensive update to federal antitrust laws was many decades ago – before tech companies like Facebook or Google even existed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But are the bills on the table the right ones to tamp down monopolistic behavior without dealing death blows to the American companies that have come to dominate much of the nation's economic landscape? Tech industry lobbyists have been hotly contesting much of the language behind the scenes. Still, the executives testifying Tuesday made pains to avoid any remarks that might be perceived as aggressive or aggrieved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Data by itself does not guarantee better or more successful products,\" Google Vice President Markham Erickson told lawmakers in his prepared remarks. \"Rather, it is the investment, innovation and method that matters, not just the amount of data a company may have.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charlotte Slaiman, competition policy director of the advocacy group Public Knowledge, offered a kind of blessing for the variety of laws under consideration during her remarks at the hearing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For decades, Washington has taken the perspective that we need to let digital businesses run wild to see what great innovations they might come up with. But today, unscrupulous data practices and consolidated power have led us to a place that isn't anyone's dream of what the internet was supposed to be,\" Slaiman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added, \"Congress has already done the laudable work of introducing a series of bills to combat these harms. The best time to pass them was 10 years ago, but the second-best time is now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Federal lawmakers are poised to pursue data privacy and antitrust legislation, as well as more funding for regulatory agencies.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1632352654,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":1058},"headData":{"title":"Senate Antitrust Panel Appears Ready to Tussle With Big Tech | KQED","description":"Federal lawmakers are poised to pursue data privacy and antitrust legislation, as well as more funding for regulatory agencies.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11889347 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11889347","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/09/22/senate-antitrust-panel-appears-ready-to-tussle-with-big-tech/","disqusTitle":"Senate Antitrust Panel Appears Ready to Tussle With Big Tech","path":"/news/11889347/senate-antitrust-panel-appears-ready-to-tussle-with-big-tech","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>U.S. Sen. Mike Lee, a Republican from Utah and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights, was engaged in a testy exchange with Facebook Privacy and Public Policy Vice President Steve Satterfield at Tuesday's \u003ca href=\"https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/big-data-big-questions-implications-for-competition-and-consumers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hearing\u003c/a>, the latest to put Big Tech executives on the spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee brought up a \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-facebook-files-11631713039\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\"series of bombshell reports\" about Facebook\u003c/a> he read in the Wall Street Journal last week. The series argues Facebook knows \"in acute detail that its platforms are riddled with flaws that cause harm, often in ways only the company fully understands.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"forum_2010101882161,forum_2010101885579,news_11888891","label":"Related Coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Satterfield countered that Facebook's internal research, leaked to the WSJ, reflects the way \"we think that’s an important way of encouraging free and frank discussion within the company.\" The report, he said, had \"missed the mark\" in its depictions of the company's internal workings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This provoked Lee, who yelled, \"How does it miss the mark? How does it miss the mark, any more than revelations years ago about tobacco companies concealing the dangers of tobacco? ... And what tobacco companies knew about what they were doing to their own users?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there was any concern the antitrust crackdown on Silicon Valley stalled in Washington, D.C., over the summer, Tuesday's hearing seemed to indicate lawmakers on both sides of the aisle smell blood in the water and feel there's much to be gained politically by pursuing Big Tech — and not just in front of the cameras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee's remark about tobacco was one of several references of the day made about companies and industries that lawmakers on Capitol Hill have dismantled in the 20th century. And while numerous hearings on Big Tech in the last two decades have featured pearl-clutching grandstanding followed by little to no antitrust legislation, the mood appears to have shifted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To start, the Biden administration has been installing \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/07/01/1011907383/new-ftc-chair-lina-khan-wants-to-redefine-monopoly-power-for-the-age-of-big-tech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">antitrust hawks in key regulatory agencies\u003c/a> like the Federal Trade Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Numerous bills are also being proposed, like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/225?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22%5C%22Klobuchar%5C%22%22%5D%7D&s=1&r=94\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Competition and Antitrust Law Enforcement Reform Act\u003c/a> put forward by U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, the Democrat who \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QRsM9G4yAQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">chairs the U.S. Senate antitrust panel\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When big data inhibits competition by allowing those who have it to block access to markets for those who do not, we need to step in and fix it. This means enforcing our existing antitrust laws to their fullest extent to protect competition. It means updating our antitrust laws for the modern economy, just as we've done centuries past,\" Klobuchar said in her opening remarks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's also the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2710/text?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22senate+app+stores%22%5D%7D&r=1&s=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Open App Markets Act\u003c/a>, from Connecticut Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal on the panel, which targets Apple and Google's control of their app stores. Plus, companion Senate legislation is reported to be on the wing to match five bipartisan bills from the House Antitrust Subcommittee that openly target Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cicilline.house.gov/sites/cicilline.house.gov/files/documents/American%20Innovation%20and%20Choice%20Online%20Act%20-%20Bill%20Text.pdf\">The American Innovation and Choice Online Act\u003c/a> would prohibit discriminatory conduct by dominant platforms, including a ban on self-preferencing a company's own products and services.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cicilline.house.gov/sites/cicilline.house.gov/files/documents/Platform%20Competition%20and%20Opportunity%20Act%20-%20Bill%20Text%20%281%29.pdf\">The Platform Competition and Opportunity Act\u003c/a> prohibits acquisitions of competitive threats by dominant platforms, as well as acquisitions that entrench the market power of online platforms.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cicilline.house.gov/sites/cicilline.house.gov/files/documents/Ending%20Platform%20Monopolies%20-%20Bill%20Text.pdf\">The Ending Platform Monopolies Act\u003c/a> attacks the ability of dominant platforms to leverage their control across multiple business lines.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cicilline.house.gov/sites/cicilline.house.gov/files/documents/ACCESS%20Act%20-%20Bill%20Text%20%281%29.pdf\">The Augmenting Compatibility and Competition by Enabling Service Switching (ACCESS) Act\u003c/a> promotes competition online by insisting on interoperability and data portability.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://cicilline.house.gov/sites/cicilline.house.gov/files/documents/Merger%20Filing%20Fee%20Modernization%20Act%20of%202021%20-%20Bill%20Text%20%281%29.pdf\">The Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act\u003c/a> updates filing fees for mergers for the first time in two decades to boost the budgets of the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Last, but not least, the bills have the support of a bipartisan coalition of 32 attorneys general, who sent a \u003ca href=\"https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/antitrust_package_support_letter_.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">letter\u003c/a> Monday to Democratic and Republican leaders of the House and the Senate, as well as their respective judiciary committees. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We stand ready and willing to share our experience with members of Congress, including how our antitrust enforcement efforts have met inappropriate skepticism in the courts,\" the coalition wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'For decades, Washington has taken the perspective that we need to let digital businesses run wild to see what great innovations they might come up with. But today, unscrupulous data practices and consolidated power have led us to a place that isn't anyone's dream of what the internet was supposed to be.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Charlotte Slaiman, competition policy director at Public Knowledge","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\"Modernization of our antitrust laws is long overdue and broadly supported,\" said \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-joins-bipartisan-coalition-support-congressional-efforts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Attorney General Rob Bonta in a press release announcing his support of the coalition\u003c/a>. \"The last time Congress passed a comprehensive update to federal antitrust laws was many decades ago – before tech companies like Facebook or Google even existed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But are the bills on the table the right ones to tamp down monopolistic behavior without dealing death blows to the American companies that have come to dominate much of the nation's economic landscape? Tech industry lobbyists have been hotly contesting much of the language behind the scenes. Still, the executives testifying Tuesday made pains to avoid any remarks that might be perceived as aggressive or aggrieved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Data by itself does not guarantee better or more successful products,\" Google Vice President Markham Erickson told lawmakers in his prepared remarks. \"Rather, it is the investment, innovation and method that matters, not just the amount of data a company may have.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charlotte Slaiman, competition policy director of the advocacy group Public Knowledge, offered a kind of blessing for the variety of laws under consideration during her remarks at the hearing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For decades, Washington has taken the perspective that we need to let digital businesses run wild to see what great innovations they might come up with. But today, unscrupulous data practices and consolidated power have led us to a place that isn't anyone's dream of what the internet was supposed to be,\" Slaiman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added, \"Congress has already done the laudable work of introducing a series of bills to combat these harms. 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Similarly, Amazon wrote to Parler that it had \"seen a steady increase in this violent content on your website, all of which violates our terms.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BuzzFeed News \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johnpaczkowski/amazon-parler-aws?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported\u003c/a> Amazon's letter to Parler, which an Amazon spokesperson confirmed as authentic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/11/14/934833214/conservatives-flock-to-mercer-funded-parler-claim-censorship-on-facebook-and-twi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Parler is used by millions\u003c/a> of users as a social media alternative to Facebook and Twitter, sites many right-wing voices accuse of unfair censorship. But the largely unmoderated nature of the app, which bills itself as \"the world's premier free speech platform,\" has bred hateful and conspiracy-laden speech and calls for violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parler CEO John Matze responded with a post on the site, calling Amazon's action \"an attempt to completely remove free speech off the internet.\" He said Parler could be unavailable for a week \"as we rebuild from scratch.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers who monitor online extremism say Parler, Gab, TheDonald and MeWe are among several of the more accessible online forums that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/congress-electoral-college-tally-live-updates/2021/01/07/954671745/on-far-right-websites-plans-to-storm-capitol-were-made-in-plain-sight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">have hosted the spread \u003c/a>of increasingly dangerous ideologies. Since November, messages on such sites have echoed Trump's falsehoods about a \"stolen\" election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Users have interpreted Trump's calls to action as the basis for violence, seen when the president's most fervent supporters \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/01/07/954384999/timeline-how-one-of-the-darkest-days-in-american-history-unfolded\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stormed the Capitol \u003c/a>in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday to interrupt the certification of the Electoral College's votes for president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon and Apple's moves are part of a wide crackdown by tech companies who are under pressure to enact stronger measures against threats of violence. A day earlier, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/01/08/954760928/twitter-bans-president-trump-citing-risk-of-further-incitement-of-violence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter permanently suspended\u003c/a> President Trump, and soon after, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/08/tech/parler-google-play-removed/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google removed the Parler app\u003c/a> from its Play Store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of publishing time, Parler's Apple app was still usable for those who had already downloaded it from the app store. Amazon said it would remove Parler effective 11:59 p.m. PT Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple left open the possibility of allowing Parler back if \"they resolve these issues.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Amazon+And+Apple+Drop+Parler&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Amazon said it was removing Parler from its web hosting service, while Apple said it suspended the social media app from its store. Both companies said Parler allowed violent threats to go unchecked.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1610405485,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":14,"wordCount":451},"headData":{"title":"Amazon and Apple Drop Parler | KQED","description":"Amazon said it was removing Parler from its web hosting service, while Apple said it suspended the social media app from its store. 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